Bhubaneswar: Ahead of auspicious Raja Festival, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday announced a hike of 4 percent in the Dearness Allowance (DA) and Dearness Relief (TI) for the Government employees and pensioners, with retrospective effect from January 1, 2023.
With the fresh hike, the DA of Government employees increased to 42 per cent from 38 per cent. The employees will get the increased DA in current month salary (June) through direct cash.
The State Government also hiked TI by 4 Percent of the pensioners. They will also get the hiked TI in their current month pension.
All regular employees and pensioners, whose number would be 7.5 lakhs in the State, would be benefited from this move.
All work- charged employees, teaching & non-teaching staff of fully aided non-Government educational institutions, non-teaching staff of universities who are in receipt of regular scale of pay will receive the enhanced DA from July, 2023 onwards.
The arrear from the month of January to June, 2022 on account of the enhanced DA will not be drawn before the date of disbursement of salary of July, 2023.