7th Pay Commission: Central employees will get good news on the evening of 28 March, new update will come regarding DA Hike
7th Pay Commission latest news today: Central employees have already received Holi (Holi 2024) gift. The central government had increased their dearness allowance (DA Hike) by 50 percent. It was implemented from January 1, 2024. Now at the end of March, it will be paid along with the arrears. But, what next? Further calculation has now started. One number has come, another is going to come. New numbers of AICPI index will come on the evening of 28 March. Because, March 29 is Good Friday and then Saturday-Sunday, so the Labor Bureau will release it on March 28 itself. In this, employees will get another new good news. The score of dearness allowance will increase beyond 50 percent. But, how much? Because, if there is 50 percent dearness allowance (DA), then a rule was made to make it zero. So when will it happen?
Calculation will start from zero
The mathematics of dearness allowance (DA) of central employees is going to change in the year 2024. Actually, the picture of dearness allowance to be implemented from January 1 has become clear. Employees are to get 50 percent DA. From January 2024, central employees will get 50 percent dearness allowance. The rule says that after getting 50 percent dearness allowance, it will be merged in the basic salary and its calculation will start from zero. But, the government has not given any clarification on this yet. Meaning, the calculation of dearness allowance will go beyond 50 percent only. But, when will it be made zero?
New dearness allowance will be implemented from July 1, 2024
The government had made the dearness allowance zero while implementing the 7th Pay Commission in the year 2016. According to the rules, as soon as the dearness allowance reaches 50 percent, it will be made zero and the money that the employees are getting as allowance according to 50 percent will be added to the basic salary i.e. minimum salary (da merger basic salary). Suppose the basic salary of an employee is Rs 18000, then he will get Rs 9000 of 50 percent DA. But, when the DA is 50 percent, it will be added to the basic salary and the dearness allowance will again be made zero. Meaning the basic salary will be revised to Rs 27,000. However, for this the government may also have to change the fitment.
Why is the dearness allowance becoming zero?
Whenever a new pay scale is implemented, the DA received by the employees is added to the basic salary. Experts say that although the rules state that 100 percent DA received by the employees should be added to the basic salary, but this does not happen. The financial situation comes in the way. However, this was done in the year 2016. Before that, when the sixth pay scale came in the year 2006, at that time 187 percent DA was being given in the fifth pay scale till December. The entire DA was merged in the basic salary. Therefore, the coefficient of the sixth pay scale was 1.87. Then a new pay band and a new grade pay were also created. But, it took three years to give it.
Will the next revision be 4 percent?
If experts are to be believed, the new dearness allowance will be calculated in July. Because, the government increases dearness allowance only twice a year. Approval has been given for January in March. Now the next revision is to be implemented from July 2024. In such a situation, dearness allowance will be merged only then and it will be calculated from zero. Meaning, the AICPI index of January to June 2024 will decide that dearness allowance is expected to increase by 4 percent. As soon as this situation becomes clear, 50 percent dearness allowance will be added to the basic salary of the employees.
When did this rule start?
In the year 2006, during the Sixth Pay Commission, the new pay scale was implemented from 1 January 2006, but its notification was issued on 24 March 2009. Due to this delay, DA arrears of 39 to 42 months were paid to the government in three installments in three financial years 2008-09, 2009-10 and 2010-11. A new pay scale was also created. In the fifth pay scale of 8000-13500, 186 percent DA on 8000 was Rs 14500. Therefore, after adding both, the total salary was 22 thousand 880. In the sixth pay scale, its equivalent pay scale was fixed at 15600 -39100 plus 5400 grade pay. In the sixth pay scale, this salary was fixed at 15600-5400 plus 21000 and on adding 16 percent DA of 2226 on January 1, 2009, the total salary was fixed at Rs 23,226. The recommendations of the fourth pay commission were implemented in 1986, the fifth in 1996 and the sixth in 2006. The recommendations of the seventh commission were implemented in January 2016.