Shillong, Oct 28: The state government has hiked the dearness allowance of employees from 43% to 46% with effect from July 1 this year.
This will benefit over 90 thousand government employees and pensioners in the state, an official statement said on Monday.
According to the order, the enhancement will also apply to the members of the work-charged establishment and casual workers, other than bungalow peons, holding posts in the pay levels as admissible to the employees of corresponding categories under the regular establishment/services/posts.
The allowance will remain suspended if the pensioners/family pensioners are employed/re-employed under the state/central government or employed/re-employed/permanently absorbed in the state’s or central government’s company, corporation, undertakings or autonomous body.
It will be revived after the spell of such employment/re-employment.
The payment on account of dearness allowance/dearness relief involving fractions of 50 paise and above may be rounded off to the next higher rupee and the fraction of less than 50 paise may be ignored.
The payment will be debited to the respective heads of accounts from which the employees draw their salary and the pensioners/family pension holders, their pension.