Chandigarh, May 26, 2016
Haryana government has decided to give enhanced rate of Dearness Allowance (DA) in cash to those state government employees who continue to draw their salary in the pre-revised scale as per 5th Pay Commission. The enhanced DA will be effective from January 1, 2016.
A spokesman of Finance Department said that a proposal to this effect has been approved by Chief Minister Manohar Lal.
He said that such employees would get enhanced DA of 245 per cent, thus registering an increase of 11 per cent. At present they are getting DA at the rate of 234 per cent.
With this revision, the state exchequer would bear an additional burden of Rs 6.53 lakh annually.