Even as Telangana government led by K Chandrasekhar Rao tried to pamper its state government employees by announcing one instalment of dearness allowance pending since July 2019, his Andhra counterpart Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy proved much better in appeasing the employees on occasion of Dasara.
On Saturday, Jagan announced release of three pending instalments of DA and dearness reliefs to employees and pensioners across 13 districts. There are 4.49 lakh empooyees and 3.57 lakh pensioners in the state.
However, while KCR announced payment of DA arrears from this month itself to be paid on November 1, the Jagan government announced release of arrears in three instalments starting from February 1.
According to the order, the first pending DA/DR due from July, 2018, will be paid from January 2021 salaries/pensions payable on February 1, 2021. For state government employees, there would be increase in DA from 27.248% to 30.392%. For the university employees, there would be an increase of 3% of pay raising it from 142% to 148%.
The additional expenditure to be incurred by the Government towards this release is around Rs 86.41 crore per month and Rs 1,037 crore per annum.
The second pending DA/DR, due from January 2019, will be paid from July 2021 Salaries/Pensions payable on 1st August 2021. The additional expenditure to be incurred by the Government towards this release is around Rs 172.82 (86.41+86.41) crore per month and Rs 2,074 crore per annum.
The third pending DA/DR, due from July 2019, will be paid from January 2022 Salaries/Pensions payable on 1st February 2022. The additional expenditure to be incurred by the Government towards this release is around Rs 316.83 (86.41+86.41+ 144.01) crore per month and Rs 3,802 crore per annum.
The arrears for the DA would be paid in three instalments to be credited to the GPF accounts and the subsequently, in cash.
The total additional expenditure to be incurred by the Government towards (3) DA/DR releases is around Rs 3,802 crore per annum in addition to the arrears payment of Rs 9,504 crore, an official statement.