Last Update: May 31, 2023, 00:01 IST
Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah (right) and Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar at Vidhana Soudha in Bengaluru. (PTI File)
The government said that these orders will be applicable to full-time government employees, employees of district panchayats, work charged employees on regular time pay scale, full time employees of aided educational institutions and universities who are on regular time pay scale.
The Karnataka government on Tuesday increased the rates of dearness allowance of government employees and pensioners to 35 per cent from the existing 31 per cent, ‘with effect from January 1, 2023’.
Basic pension or family pension has also been increased, which will also apply to those pensioners in aided educational institutions “whose pension/family pension is paid from the Consolidated Fund of the State”.
A government order said, “The government is pleased to enhance the rates of dearness allowance payable to state government employees in the revised pay scales of 2018 from the existing 31% to 35% of the basic pay with effect from January 1, 2023.”
The government said that these orders will be applicable to full-time government employees, employees of district panchayats, work charged employees on regular time pay scale, full time employees of aided educational institutions and universities who are on regular time pay scale.
It added that separate orders would be issued for employees on UGC/AICTE/ICAR/NJPC pay scales and ‘also in respect of NJPC pensioners’.
“The arrears of Dearness Allowance shall not be paid before the date of disbursement of salary for May 2023,” the order said.
(This story has not been edited by News18 staff and is published from a syndicated news agency feed – PTI,
