DEARNESS
ALLOWANCE MERGER – QUESTION OF MERGING CENTRAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES DA WITH
THEIR PAY DOES NOT ARISE AS 6TH PAY COMMISSION RECOMMENDED NOT TO MERGE THE
SAME WITH PAY – MINISTER REPLIES IN THE RAJYA SABHA
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF FINANCE
RAJYA SABHA
UNSTARRED QUESTION NO-4384
ANSWERED ON-07.05.2013
Dearness Allowance as Dearness Pay
4384 . SARDAR BALWINDER
SINGH BHUNDAR
(a) whether the earlier Pay
Commissions for Central Government Employees had recommended that a certain
percentage of Dearness Allowance to be treated as Dearness Pay;
(c) by when the salaried
class as well as pensioners are likely to be benefited so as to overcome the
hardship being faced by them to maintain their day-to-day household expenses?
ANSWER
Minister of State in the
Ministry of Finance (E & FS) (Shri Namo Narain Meena)
(a)&(b) The 5th Pay Commission
had recommended that Dearness Allowance should be converted into Dearness Pay
each time the Consumer Price Index increases by 50% over the base index used by
the last pay Commission. Accordingly the Government issued orders on 27.02.2004
for merging of 50% of the DA with the basic pay w.e.f.01.04.2004.
(c) The 6th Central Pay Commission
had recommended not to merge Dearness Allowance with basic pay at any stage.
Government has accepted this recommendation vide Resolution dated
29.08.2008. Hence the question to merge DA with basic pay does
not arise. However, the rate of DA is being revised at periodic intervals.
Source:
rajyasabha.nic.in
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