It is
informed by the Secretary, Staff Side(JCM), Sri S.G.Mishra, that, meeting of
the Committee on Allowances will be held on 06.04.2017. Probably this may the
conclusive meeting.
Central
Govt. employees are eagerly waiting for the revised allowances and the date of
effect. Different media report earlier indicated that Govt. will take a final
call in this month. It is widely anticipated that revised allowances will come
with arrears but the date of effect may be from 01.01.2016 or 01.07.2016.
Some media
reports are also optimistic of upward revision of HRA to 30, 20 and 10%.
