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The State authorities has issued orders hiking the Dearness Allowance (DA) and Dearness Relief (DR) from the exiting complaint of 22% to 25%. The DA astatine the enhanced complaint volition beryllium disbursed with the wage for the period of February 2026. The DR astatine the enhanced complaint shall beryllium disbursed with the pension for March, according to an bid issued by the Finance department.
The February 4 DA bid is applicable to State authorities employees, teachers, unit of aided schools, backstage colleges and polytechnics, full-time contingent employees and employees of section governments. The bid connected DR applies to State work pensioners, household pensioners, ex-gratia pensioners and ex-gratia household pensioners..
The bid noted that the further expenditure successful respect of section governments volition beryllium met by them from their ain funds.
The enhanced DA volition besides beryllium applicable to part-time teachers and part-time contingent employees connected the ground of wage drawn by them and besides to re-employed pensioners.
The February 4 bid volition use to State PSUs, statutory corporations, autonomous bodies, boards and grants-in-aid institutions taxable to conditions: organisations that are already connected the State signifier of DA/DR tin merchandise the enhanced rates to employees amd pensioners without referring to the government, but taxable to a determination by their governing bodies and the quality of the organisations to conscionable the disbursal from their ain resources. If the organisation cannot conscionable specified expenses connected its own, anterior support of the authorities is needed.
The bid does not use to those organisations (such arsenic the KSEB and KSRTC) that person been instructed to contented abstracted DA/DR orders. Such organisations person been directed to pursuing the existing practices, including securing the anterior support of the government, portion sanctioning DA/DR.
Finance Minister K.N. Balagopal had announced successful the 2026-27 State Budget that the authorities would code the issues plaguing the timely outgo of DA and DR.
