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7th Pay Commission: If the DA is hiked by 4%, it will lead to a massive salary hike for the Central government employees and there will be a potential increase in the current DA from 42% to 46%.
DA is given to government employees, while DR is given to pensioners. DA and DR are hiked twice a year — January and July.
Last month, All India Railwaymen Federation General Secretary Shiva Gopal Mishra told PTI that the Federation is demanding a four percentage point hike in dearness allowance.
According to the sources, the government is mulling to announce the hike in DA by the end of this month or before Navratri.
The Central government employees must note that the dearness allowance is worked out on the basis of the latest Consumer Price Index for Industrial Workers (CPI-IW) brought out by the Labour Bureau every month.