7th pay commission: While central government employees wait, this state goes ahead, hikes earnings of staff
The state government raised the DA on the pattern used by Centre from existing 5 per cent to 7 per cent. Making this announcement in Chandigarh today, Haryana's Finance Minister Abhimanyu said that this would put an additional financial burden of about Rs 309.54 crore on the state exchequer for 14 months from January 2018 to February 2019 in the financial year 2018-19.
7th Pay Commission: The central government employees want the recommendations to be implemented with a higher fitment factor of 3.68 times. Image source: PTI