AP Bureau
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Bhubaneswar, 20th April 2015: Odisha Government has decided to hike the dearness allowance (DA) by 6% for the all govt employees with retrospective effect from January’ 2015. The benefit will also be applicable to employees of Grant-in-Aid colleges , an official release said.
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Post hike the DA will be paid @113% in place of earlier @107%. Employees will get the increment in April month’s pay. After that, the outstanding incremental DA from Jan-March 2015 will be paid to them.
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By this hike, the Government is going to cough up an additional Rs 531.29 crore in the current financial year to benefit around 4 lakh workers in the State.
