Pay Commission recommends Higher Education allowance for employees
Chandigarh, May 4, 2021: In its recommendations Sixty Pay Commission has recommended High Education allowance for employees apart from other allowances.
It said that though the existing classification of the categories of cities for HRA is proposed to be retained, with rationalization in house rent allowance (by a factor of 0.8 of the existing rates and calculated as a percentage of basic pay, the Commission has recommended introduction of several new allowance categories, including higher education allowance in the form of lump sum rate for all employees acquiring higher qualification.