7th Pay Commission: The Central Government has increased the dearness allowance of central employees by 4 percent on Thursday evening last week. Along with Dearness Allowance (DA Hike), there has also been an increase in Dearness Relief (DR Hike) of the employees. Apart from this, now the HRA of the employees has also increased. Let us know how much the HRA of the employees of your city has increased.
The central government has given the gift of Holi to the central employees on 7 March 2024 (Thursday) in the evening. The government has increased the Dearness Allowance (DA) and Dearness Relief (DR) of central employees. Dearness allowance has been increased by 4 percent from 46 percent. This means that now their dearness allowance has become 50 percent.
Apart from this, the Central Government has increased the income tax exemption limit on gratuity from Rs 20 lakh to Rs 25 lakh. After these two announcements of the government, the house rent allowance ( HRA ) for employees has also increased in many cities of India. HRA has increased from 1 percent to 3 percent.
HRA is 30 percent increase in the basic salary of the employee. After the increase in HRA, the burden on the government has increased by approximately Rs 9,0000 crore. Let us know by how much HRA of employees has increased in different cities.
What is the new HRA limit?
Ever since the Central Government has increased the HRA, employees want to know how much their HRA has increased. The government has divided every city into X,Y,Z categories. City employees falling in X category get the highest HRA of 27 percent, which has now increased to 30 percent.
Similarly, Y category employees used to get 18 percent HRA, which has now increased to 20 percent. After this, the HRA of the employees falling in Z category has increased by 1 percent, that is, now their HRA has increased from 9 percent to 10 percent.
Cities falling in X category
Delhi, Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Mumbai, Pune, Chennai and Kolkata fall in X category.
Cities falling in Y category
Cities like Patna, Lucknow, Visakhapatnam, Guntur, Vijayawada, Guwahati, Chandigarh, Raipur, Rajkot, Jamnagar, Vadodara, Surat, Faridabad, Ghaziabad, Gurgaon, Noida, Ranchi, Jammu, Srinagar, Gwalior, Indore, Bhopal. , Jabalpur, Ujjain, Kolhapur, Aurangabad, Nagpur, Sangli, Solapur, Nashik, Nanded, Bhiwadi, Amravati, Cuttack, Bhubaneswar, Rourkela, Amritsar, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Bikaner, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Kota, Ajmer, Moradabad, Meerut, Bareilly. , Aligarh, Agra, Lucknow, Kanpur, Allahabad, Gorakhpur, Firozabad, Jhansi, Varanasi, and Saharanpur fall in Y category.
Which cities come in Z category?
Z category includes those cities which do not come in X,Y. Employees of these cities will now get HRA of 10 percent.
