Chandigarh, July 7, 2020: Government of Haryana on Monday ordered the freezing of dearness allowance (DA) of its employees and dearness relief (DR) of the pensioners at the current rates till July 2021.
DA and DR will be continued to be paid at current rate of 17%, however, the employees and the pensioners will not be paid arrears of these allowances from January 1, 2020, to June 30, 2021.
On Monday, the finance department sent a letter to the heads of department, divisions and deputy commissioners, informing them about the freezing of DA and DR at current rates.
The letter stated: “In view of the crisis arising out of Covid-19, it has been decided that additional instalment of DA payable to Haryana government employees and dearness relief to Haryana government pensioners, due from January 1, 2020, will not be paid. However, DA and DR at the current rate of 17% will continue to be paid.”
When the decision to release the future instalment of DA and DR due from July 1, 2021 is taken, the rates of DA and DR as effective from January 1, 2020, July 1, 2020 and January 1, 2021 will be restored ‘prospectively’ and will be subsumed in the cumulative revised rate effective from July 1, 2021.