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ITANAGAR, 10 Oct:<\/strong> The Arunachal Pradesh government announced a three percent hike in dearness allowance (DA) from the existing 55 percent to 58 percent for its employees and pensioners.<\/p>\n The increase will be effective from 1 July.<\/p>\n In a post on social media, Chief Minister Pema Khandu said the enhancement will benefit state government employees, pensioners, and AIS officers serving in the state.<\/p>\n He said the arrears for three months – July to September – will be paid in cash, and the revised DA\/DR (dearness relief) will be included in the October salaries and pensions.<\/p>\n “This decision reflects our government’s strong commitment to employee welfare and ensuring that every member of our workforce and retired community feels valued,” Khandu wrote in the post.<\/p>\n This is the second hike in the DA\/DR for state government employees, which has brought the allowances at par with those of the central government employees.<\/p>\n In May this year, the state government had hiked the DA\/DR from 53 percent to 55 percent.<\/p>\n Welcoming the decision, the Confederation of Service Associations of Arunachal Pradesh (CoSAAP) has expressed gratitude to the administration.<\/p>\n “The enhancement will benefit more than 75,000 regular state government employees, pensioners and AIS officers serving in the state,” it said in a statement.<\/p>\n It said also that this move would encourage state government employees to work more sincerely and dedicatedly for the all-round development of Arunachal. (With PTI input)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ITANAGAR, 10 Oct: The Arunachal Pradesh government announced a three percent hike in dearness allowance (DA) from the existing 55 percent to 58 percent for its employees and pensioners. The increase will be effective from 1 July. In a post on social media, Chief Minister Pema Khandu said the enhancement will benefit state government employees, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-272030","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}