GOVERNMENT OF INDIA - MINISTRY OF FINANCE - LOK SABHA
UNSTARRED QUESTION NO 859 / ANSWERED ON 25.02.2011
DA OF CENTRAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES
859 . Smt. P. JAYA PRADA NAHATA
NEERAJ SHEKHAR
YASHVIR SINGH
Will the Minister of FINANCE be pleased to state:-
(a) whether Government has plans to increase dearness allowance effective from January,2011 for Central Government employees with a rate that commensurates with the inflationary trends and plights of working class in the past few months;
(b) if so, the details thereof and if not, the reasons therefore;
(c) whether Government has any proposals to declare DA as Dearness Pay when it will cross 50 per cent, as it was done during the 5th Pay Commission;
CABINET APPROVES 8% HIKE IN DEARNESS ALLOWANCE FOR CG EMPLOYEES

