New Delhi (02.07.2021): Several government employees' unions on July 1 have written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking restoration of dearness allowance (DA) and dearness relief (DR) that has been withheld since January last year. Central secretariat workers, teachers, corporation workers, those employed with the central public works department wrote to the Prime Minister underlining their demands including reinstating DA and DR. Several state government unions also joined in. The government has stopped DA due to the extra burden on the government exchequer in the prevailing COVID-19 situation in the country. The government is trying hard to bring back the economy on the growth path so all other economic activities of the government are normalised. However, the government made it clear recently that it does not have any plan to restore DA anytime soon. The government is hard-pressed due to COVID-19 as all economic activities are affected by it however, the government did not impose lockdown during the second wave so the economic activities are not affected.
Employees Unions write to PM for restoration of DA
By IndianMandarins - 2021-07-02 05:00:00
New Delhi (02.07.2021): Several government employees' unions on July 1 have written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking restoration of dearness allowance (DA) and dearness relief (DR) that has been withheld since January last year.
Central secretariat workers, teachers, corporation workers, those employed with the central public works department wrote to the Prime Minister underlining their demands including reinstating DA and DR. Several state government unions also joined in.
The government has stopped DA due to the extra burden on the government exchequer in the prevailing COVID-19 situation in the country. The government is trying hard to bring back the economy on the growth path so all other economic activities of the government are normalised. However, the government made it clear recently that it does not have any plan to restore DA anytime soon.
The government is hard-pressed due to COVID-19 as all economic activities are affected by it however, the government did not impose lockdown during the second wave so the economic activities are not affected.
