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Lucknow.  The state government has increased the dearness allowance while giving relief to the employees who do not get the seventh pay scale. Regular and full-time employees of aided educational and technical educational institutions, urban bodies, employees on work charge and employees working in UGC pay scale will be given 239 percent dearness allowance of the basic salary from January 1, 2024.

Additional Chief Secretary of Finance Department Deepak Kumar issued its order on Friday. According to the government order, its benefit will also be available to those employees who have not been selected in the revised pay matrix from January 1, 2016 or whose pay scale has not been revised from this date.

These employees will get cash

The amount of dearness allowance due from January 1, 2024 to May 31, 2024 will be deposited in the employees' provident fund account. Employees who have retired before the issuance of the government order or are going to retire in six months will be given the entire amount of arrears of dearness allowance in cash. It is worth noting that even now the employees of many departments are getting the fourth, fifth and sixth pay scales. 


 

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