The proposal for Revision of Dearness Allowance Rate from 27% to 35% is likely to be approved by cabinet meeting today (19.3.2010). About 50 lakh central government employees may get 8 percentage points increase in their dearness allowance (DA) Pensioners may also get the dearness relief, highly placed sources said. The increase would be given with retrospective effect from January this year. The DA revision is based on the consumer price index (CPI) for industrial workers, which has been showing a steep increase along with other indices of the price rise. The CPI for industrial workers increased to 16.2 per cent in January from 10.4 per cent a year ago.
(SOURCE-GCONNECT)
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