VIJAYAWADA: The state government has issued an order freezing dearness allowance for state government employees and pensioners/family pensioners at the current rates till July.
The government issued GO MS No. 95 dated 06-11-2020 stating that the additional installment of dearness allowance payable to state government employees and dearness relief to government pensioners/family pensioners, due from January 1, 2020, shall not be paid. Similarly, the additional installments of dearness allowance and dearness relief due from July 1, 2020 to January 1, 2021, shall not be paid.
The order said that once the state government decides to release the future installments of DA/DR due from July 1, 2021, the rates of DA/DR as effective from January 1, 2020, July 1, 2020 and January 1, 2021 will be restored and will be subsumed in the cumulative revised rate effective from July 1, 2021. No arrears for the period from January 1, 2020 to June 30, 2021 shall be paid.
The GO further said that the order shall be applicable to teaching and non-teaching staff working in government and aided educational institutions, polytechnics, employees under local bodies, employees governed by the UGC/AICTE scales of pay and all other employees drawing pay in the prescribed level of pay in the revised scales, 2015. The order is also applicable to judicial officers, who are drawing National Judicial Pay Commission scales and those drawing ICAR scales. The order is also applicable to employees of Zilla Parishads, municipalities, municipal corporations, who are on regular pay scales, work charged employees, who are drawing regular pay scales, and employees of state government undertakings/corporations/
As the Centre has taken up a similar exercise following reduction in revenue inflow as economic activities in all sectors have come to a standstill due to Covid-19, the state government has issued the GO adopting the same measures.
