Union Cabinet is likely to clear Dearness Allowance disbursement prospectively todayIn what could be good news for Central Government employees and pensioners, the Union Cabinet is likely to clear the proposal of giving them Dearness Allowance (DA) and Dearness Relief (DR) hike with effect from July 1, 2021.Sources in the know informed that this is likely to be given prospectively. It could be disbursed from September this year, they added.The Union Cabinet is meeting today afternoon. This is the second meeting of the newly reshuffled Cabinet in less than a week.Last week, the Joint Council Machinery for Central Government Employees (JCM) which is headed by the Cabinet Secretary, is learnt to have cleared the proposal for hiking DA and DR.The proposal is also learnt to have been cleared during a meeting held on June 26 between Finance Ministry and officials of the Department of Personnel and Training.The JCM consists of representatives of recognised Central Government employees union as well as senior Central Government officials.The DA and DR instalments are due for four periods namely January 1, 2020, July 1, 2020, January 1, 2021 and July 1, 2021.Hit by the Coronavirus pandemic, the Centre had last year on April 23, 2020, decided to freeze DA and DR with effect from January 1, 2020 till July 2021, with the aim of saving funds to combat the medical emergency which continues to affect the nation.
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