www.khabrein.info - Sixth Pay Commission: approved allowances

Under Sixth Pay Commission government has approved many allowances. It has also withdrawn several allowances and has reduced or increased them.

In the meantime the government has forwarded the report to Department of Personal and Training for the implementation of the report. This shows government’s sincerity in implementing the report.

In the meantime more and more state government are coming forward to implement the report in heir respective states. Though there are questions as to whether how the state governments already their economy in tatters can absorb the burden of thousands of crore of rupees on the implementation of the report.

Nonetheless it gives hope to millions of state government employees that sooner than later they too are going to benefit from sixth Pay Commission recommendations.

1. Dearness Allowance:

the AICPI (IW) will continue to be the index used for calculating DA for Government employees.
Merger of dearness allowance with basic pay is not recommended.
DA will continue to be sanctioned twice a year as on 1st January and 1st July payable with the salary of March and September, respectively.
2. City Compensatory Allowance (CCA):

City Compensatory Allowance to be abolished.
3. Other Compensatory allowances:

Rates of Special Compensatory (Hill Area/Remote Locality), Tribal Area Allowance, Project Allowance and Bad Climate Allowance revisied as follows :
Project Allowance: Rs.1500 p.m. For posts in the grade pay of Rs.5400 and above; Rs.1000 p.m.For posts in the grade pay of less than Rs.5400
The rates of all the above allowances shall automatically increase by 25% whenever the Dearness Allowance payable on the revised pay bands goes up by 50%.
Abolition of Special Compensatory Allowance for Gandhinagar and Special Compensatory (Border Area) Allowance.
As regards Special (Duty) Allowance for postings to North East Regions, the allowance at the existing rates should be paid to all Central Government employees on their posting on transfer to any North East Region irrespective of whether the transfer is from outside the North East Region or from another area of that region.
The condition that the employees have all India transfer liability should also be dispensed with. This will ensure that all employees, irrespective of their group, get the benefit of this allowance on their posting to a new city in North East on transfer.
The Special (Duty) Allowance as well as other concessions allowed to the Government employees in North East region to be extended to the Government employees posted in Ladakh.


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