GOVERNMENT
OF INDIA
MINISTRY
OF FINANCE
RAJYA
SABHA
UNSTARRED QUESTION NO-4384
ANSWERED
ON-07.05.2013
Dearness Allowance as Dearness Pay
4384 . SARDAR BALWINDER SINGH
BHUNDAR
(a) whether the earlier Pay Commissions for Central Government Employees had recommended that a certain percentage of Dearness Allowance to be treated as Dearness Pay;
(b) if so, the details thereof; and
(c) by when the salaried class as well as pensioners are likely to be benefited so as to overcome the hardship being faced by them to maintain their day-to-day household expenses?
(a) whether the earlier Pay Commissions for Central Government Employees had recommended that a certain percentage of Dearness Allowance to be treated as Dearness Pay;
(b) if so, the details thereof; and
(c) by when the salaried class as well as pensioners are likely to be benefited so as to overcome the hardship being faced by them to maintain their day-to-day household expenses?
ANSWER
Minister of State in the Ministry of
Finance (E & FS) (Shri Namo Narain Meena)
(a)&(b) The 5th Pay Commission
had recommended that Dearness Allowance should be converted into Dearness Pay
each time the Consumer Price Index increases by 50% over the base index used by
the last pay Commission. Accordingly the Government issued orders on 27.02.2004
for merging of 50% of the DA with the basic pay w.e.f.01.04.2004.
(c) The 6th Central Pay Commission
had recommended not to merge Dearness Allowance with basic pay at any stage.
Government has accepted this recommendation vide Resolution dated
29.08.2008. Hence the question to merge DA with basic pay does
not arise. However, the rate of DA is being revised at periodic intervals.
Source:
rajyasabha.nic.in
