NO PROPOSAL TO DECLARE DA AS DEARNESS PAY, AFTER DA CROSSES 50% IS UNDER CONSIDERATION OF THE GOVERNMENT

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 SHEKHARYASHVIR SINGH

Will the Minister of FINANCE be pleased to state:-
(a) whether Government has plans to increase dearness allowanceeffective 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;

(d) if so, the details thereof; and
(e) if not the reasons therefore?