Thiruvananthapuram: State govt on Friday issued orders to enhance the dearness allowance (DA) payable to govt employees and dearness relief (DR) payable to pensioners from the existing 25% to 35%. The enhanced DA rate will be made applicable to part-time teachers and part-time contingent employees on the basic pay drawn by them, and to re-employed pensioners. The additional expenditure on this account will be met by local self-govt institutions (LSGIs) from their own funds, stated the govt order (GO) issued.
The organizations which are already on the state pattern of DA/DR relief can release the enhanced rates to their employees/pensioners without referring to govt. But such a decision must be based on a decision by the board of directors/governing body/managing committee/executive committee, taking into account the ability of the organization to meet the expense from its own resources. Others should obtain prior approval from the govt.This DA/DR enhancement is, however, not applicable to organizations like KSEB and KSRTC, which were instructed to issue separate DA/DR. The DA/DR at enhanced rates shall be disbursed along with the salary/pension due for the month of April. An order will be issued separately regarding the arrears, the GO added.
