By Admin 
7th pay commission da hike: After improvement in GST rate, now the central government employees are expected to get a ‘good news’ before the festive season. It is being told that the dearness allowance (DA) of central government employees is going to increase soon. The government can announce the DA hike before Diwali for the long -a -time employees and pensioners who have been waiting for the formation of the 8th Pay Commission. This step will provide great relief to more than 1.2 crore central government employees and pensioners. Employees are being estimated to get the benefit of increasing earnings before Dussehra and Diwali.
Three months arrears will also be available
The Central Government employees are expected to increase from DA 55 percent to 3 percent to 58 percent. Since this increase will be considered applicable from July 2025, the central government employees and pensioners will get the salary and pension of July, August and September by adding the arrears of three months. According to the information received, in the first week of October, a formal announcement of 3 percent DA hike can be made. The government will announce this at such a time, so that employees and pensioners can get some relief in the festive season.
The government amends the dearness allowance to give relief to its employees from increasing inflation-Dearness Allowance (DA) twice a year, which are implemented from 1 January and 1 July. Whereas its growth is announced twice a year-February-March and September-October. In view of inflation this year, there is a possibility of an increase of 3-4 percent in DA for central government employees in July 2025. This is expected to provide relief to employees from the effect of inflation.
How is calculation done?
DA hike for industrial workers is calculated on the basis of CPI-IW, which is issued every month. The government calculates the increase in dearness allowance by taking out the average of the CPI-IW data of the last 12 months and using a special formula under the Seventh Pay Commission. Understand this in this way- from July 2024 to July 2025, the CPI-IW average was 146.3. Based on this, the existing DA 55 percent to 3 percent will increase to 58 percent.