{"id":141469,"date":"2019-02-19T19:15:04","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T19:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/?p=141469"},"modified":"2019-02-19T19:15:04","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T19:15:04","slug":"cabinet-approves-additional-instalment-da-central-government-employees-dr-pensioners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/141469","title":{"rendered":"Cabinet approves additional instalment of DA to Central Government employees and DR to Pensioners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Delhi, Feb. 19 (Punjab Post Bureau) &#8211; The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given its <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-72901\" src=\"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Modi-PM.jpg\" alt=\"modi-pm\" width=\"448\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Modi-PM.jpg 448w, https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Modi-PM-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Modi-PM-290x195.jpg 290w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/>approval to the release of an additional instalment of Dearness Allowance (DA) to Central Government employees, and Dearness Relief (DR) to pensioners w.e.f. 1.1.2019 representing an increase of 3% over the existing rate of 9% of the Basic Pay\/Pension, to compensate for price rise. This increase is in accordance with the accepted formula, which is based on the recommendations of the 7th&nbsp;Central Pay Commission (CPC). The combined impact on the exchequer on account of both DA and DR would be Rs. 9168.12 crore per annum and Rs. 10696.14 crore in the FY 2019-20 (for a period of 14 months from January 2019 to February, 2020).This will benefit about 48.41 lakh Central Government employees and 62.03 lakh pensioners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi, Feb. 19 (Punjab Post Bureau) &#8211; The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given its approval to the release of an additional instalment of Dearness Allowance (DA) to Central Government employees, and Dearness Relief (DR) to pensioners w.e.f. 1.1.2019 representing an increase of 3% over the existing rate of 9% of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-english"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cabinet approves additional instalment of DA to Central Government employees and DR to Pensioners | Punjab Post<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/141469\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cabinet approves additional instalment of DA to Central Government employees and DR to Pensioners | Punjab Post\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Delhi, Feb. 19 (Punjab Post Bureau) &#8211; 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