Will govt pay 18-month DA defaults? Here’s the response

Summary Throughout COVID-19, the main federal government froze 3 dearness allowance instalments. This choice intended to alleviate pressure on public financial resources amidst financial disturbance. Member of Parliament Anand Bhadauria questioned the DA financial obligations. Getty Images DA financial obligations 19659004 The main federal government froze 3 instalments of dearness allowance (DA)and dearness relief (DR)throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, pointing out extreme financial interruption and the requirement to reduce pressure on public financial resources. Member of Parliament Anand Bhadauria raised concerns concerning the DA financial obligations for main civil servant throughout COVID-19, to which the federal government reacted with its main position in Lok Sabha on August 11, 2025. 19659005 What is Dearness Allowance? 19659006 Dearness Allowance(DA )is a cost-of-living change paid by the federal government to its workers and pensioners to assist balance out the effect of inflation. Check out: Last DA walking of 3% or 4 % under 7th CPC in July 2025? Main civil servant can get this much boost in dearness allowance Dearness Relief (DR) is an allowance paid to federal government pensioners to assist them deal with increasing rates, comparable to Dearness Allowance (DA) for working workers. 19659009 ET Wealth Online breaks down the federal government’s main reaction to listed below essential concerns. 19659010 Whether the choice to freeze 18 months’ dearness allowance and dearness relief for Central Government staff members and pensioners throughout COVID-19 were taken due to financial disturbance and to relieve pressure on federal government financial resources? 19659011 The federal government reacted in Parliament: The choice to freeze 3 instalments of Dearness Allowance (DA)/ Dearness Relief (DR) to Central Government workers/ pensioners due from January 1, 2020, July 1, 2020 & & January 1, 2021 was taken in the context of COVID-19, which triggered financial disturbance, so regarding relieve pressure on federal government financial resources. 19659012 If so, whether the financial condition of the federal government is still under pressure and is on the edge of personal bankruptcy; if so, the information thereof and the factors for failure of the federal government to keep the robust financial condition of the nation as much as the mark which it acquired in tradition in 2014. 19659013 The federal government reacted in Parliament: “The financial deficit of the federal government of India has actually narrowed from 9.2 percent in the Financial Year (FY) 2020-21 to 4.4 percent in the FY 2025-26 (Budget Estimates).” The time by which the federal government would launch the financial obligations of 18 months DA/DR? The financial hit from COVID and additional well-being costs left no space in the spending plan to pay those postponed DA/DR quantities. 19659016 The federal government reacted in Parliament: “The negative monetary effect of pandemic in 2020 and the funding of well-being procedures taken by the Government had a financial overflow beyond FY 2020-21. Financial obligations of DA/DR were not thought about practical.” Lessons from the Grandmasters 19659019 N.R. 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