Himachal Pradesh govt employees get DA hike: Check latest dearness allowance rate

Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur announced a 31 per cent dearness allowance hike. 

New Delhi: Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur, on Tuesday (January 25), announced a 31 per cent dearness allowance (DA) hike for the state government employees. The decision was taken by the government ahead of the state assembly elections that are due in 2022. The Chief Minister made the announcement at the Himachal Pradesh Statehood Day function in Solan town.

While making the announcement, Chief Minister said, "My government had recently announced a new pay scale, which will benefit 2,25,000 employees while putting a monetary burden of Rs 6,000 crore to the state exchequer."

"It has been brought to my notice that some anomalies existed in the new scale, which will deny some employees gain the optimum benefits. So apart from the two options (provided under the new scale), I announce another one so that no employee is bereft of the gains of the new pay scale."