Odisha

New Year Gift For Odisha Govt Employees; DA Hiked By 3%

Bhubaneswar: The state government on Friday announced an increase in the dearness allowance of its employees and dearness relief of the pensioners.

The DA has been hiked by 3 per cent for its employees as well as pensioners. The hike will be effective retrospectively from July 1, 2021.

With this hike, the DA on the salary of the government employees has gone upto 31 per cent from 28 per cent. It will benefit 7.5 lakh government employees and pensioners in the state.

It may be mentioned that the government had hiked the DA during Durga Puja by 11 per cent taking the total to 28 per cent.

OB Bureau

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