UT employees & pensioners to get increased DA on central pattern
Chandigarh, July 23, 2021:
The Chandigarh administration on Friday officially ordered that UT employees and pensioners will get Dearness Allowance (DA) at revised rate on the central pattern.
Now, the employees will be granted DA from the existing rate of 17% to 28%.
On July 16, MP Kirron Kher had taken up the issue of dearness allowance (DA) with the UT Administration. She had even written a letter to the UT Adviser, Dharam Pal in which she highlighted the increase of DA from 17% to 28%, by the Central Government with effect from July 1, 2021. Kiron Kher had also requested that the DA on the central pattern may be granted to UT employees and pensioners by delinking it from the Punjab Government pattern.
Notably, the UT Administration was following the Punjab pattern till now.
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