Union Cabinet hike the dearness allowance (DA) for central government employees and dearness relief (DR) for pensioners from 28% to 31% ahead of the Diwali festivities in the country.
Union Minister Anurag Thakur said that the decision will be effective from 1st July 2021.
The Centre Government decision to hike the dearness allowance and and dearness relief by 3% will benefit nearly 47.14 lakh central government employees and and 68.62 lakh pensioners.
The decision will cost exchequer nearly Rs 9,488.70 crore per annum.
Central government had hike the dearness allowance by 11% from 17% to 28%.
Anurag Thakur also announce that the Centre has approve PM GatiShakti National Master Plan for multi-modal connectivity to economic zones.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had launch the Rs 100 lakh crore national master plan for multi-modal connectivity on 13th October 2021.
Centre Government Said in a release :
“This will help in bringing down the logistics cost. This will translate into enormous economic gains to consumers, farmers, youth as well as those engaged in businesses. With this approval, the roll out of PM GatiShakti will get further momentum which will result in holistic and integrated planning framework for infrastructure development in the country,”
“With this approval, PM GatiShakti shall bring in various stakeholders together and help integrate different modes of transportation. PM Gatishakti NMP for multi-modal connectivity will ensure holistic governance at the Centre of which are people of India, industries of India, manufacturers of India and farmers of India,”.
The PM GatiShakti NMP is aim to “break Departmental Silos and bring in more holistic and integrated planning and execution of projects with a view to address the issues of Multi Modal connectivity and last mile connectivity”.
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