SOURCE : NEW18 NEWS
Last Updated:May 17, 2025, 10:31 IST
The Bihar government has announced a 2 percentage points hike in dearness allowance (DA) for its employees and pensioners.
A hike of 6 percentage points has been approved by the Bihar government for those in the pay scale of the 6th Pay Commission.
The Bihar government has announced a 2 percentage points hike in dearness allowance (DA) for its employees and pensioners. The decision was taken on May 16, 2025, at a meeting of the state cabinet, chaired by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.
With this hike, employees and pensioners in the pay scale of the 7th Pay Commission will get DA and Dearness Relief (DR) of 55 per cent, Additional Chief Secretary (Cabinet Secretariat) S Siddharth said.
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“A hike of 6 percentage points has been approved for those in the pay scale of the 6th Pay Commission. This will raise their DA and DR to 252 per cent. For those in the pay scale of the 5th Pay Commission, the DA and DR have been raised by 11 percentage points to 466 per cent,” he said.
The hike will benefit more than 5 lakh employees and over 6 lakh pensioners, officials said.
It will be effective from January 1, 2025, they said.
West Bengal Govt Employees Hail SC Direction on DA
Meanwhile, an association of West Bengal government employees has hailed the Supreme Court’s interim order, directing the state to pay 25 per cent of the outstanding Dearness Allowance (DA) within the next three months.
Sangrami Joutho Mancha convenor Bhaskar Ghosh said the state government had been denying its employees their rightful dues. “Thanks to the SC for upholding our rights,” he said.
A bench comprising Justices Sanjay Karol and Sandeep Mehta, which was hearing a plea of the West Bengal government against the Calcutta High Court order on the issue, asked the state government to pay the DA arrears for 2009 to 2019 within three months.
The ruling Trinamool Congress said it will abide by the SC order in letter and spirit.
TMC leader Joyprakash Majumdar, however, attacked the opposition, alleging they were trying to malign the state government..
Around six lakh state employees would benefit from the apex court’s interim order.
- First Published:
May 17, 2025, 10:31 IST
