DA Hike News: These days, state governments are also following the footsteps of the Centre. The central government has decided to increase the dearness allowance of its employees. After which now the state governments are also increasing the dearness allowance of their employees. Recently, Bihar government has increased the dearness allowance of its state employees. Now actor Vijay, who recently became the CM of Tamil Nadu, has also given the gift of dearness allowance to the employees.

Thalapathy Vijay’s gift to government employees
In fact, recently the Government of Tamil Nadu on Thursday announced to increase the Dearness Allowance (DA) by 2% for government employees, teachers, pensioners and family pensioners. After this DA has increased from 58% to 60%. This increase will be considered effective from January 1, 2026. This decision has been taken by the government of recently appointed Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu C Joseph Vijay. This will benefit about 16 lakh government employees, teachers, pensioners and their families of the state.

The Government will provide 60 percent increase in the rate of Rs. 58 lakhs to teachers and students from 01.01.2026.
Mr. Ch. Joseph Vijay’s announcement#CMJosephVijay pic.twitter.com/jspnkFOKLS

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What did the government say?
While increasing the dearness allowance of the employees, the government has said that many schemes are being run in the state for the welfare of the people and government employees and teachers have an important role in implementing these schemes. The government also said that the Central Government has already increased the DA of its employees from 58% to 60%. After this, the Chief Minister decided that the same increased DA should be given to the employees and teachers of Tamil Nadu.

Let us tell you that this increase will cause additional expenditure of about Rs 1,230 crore every year on the state government. This news has caused a wave of happiness among the government employees working in Tamil Nadu.

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