The central government announced in March 2021 that the dearness allowance (DA) of central employees and dearness relief (DR) for pensioners would be resumed from July 1, 2021. The meeting was finally going to resolve the 7th Central Pay Commission matrix issue that has been delaying the implementation of full benefits. The announcement made by Thakur came as a big relief to 52 lakh central government employees as the Centre has freezed DA benefit of employees till June 2021. The decision to restore DA from July 2021 would benefit about 50 lakh central government employees and more than 65 lakh pensioners. Central employees and pensioners are currently getting a 17% dearness allowance which may now jump to 28% leading to a huge rise in the employees' 7th CPC salary.

Source: dna May 09, 2021 10:30 UTC