Uttarakhand CM announces DA for the month of July August benefitting 1.68 lakh state employees n pensioners

The Uttarakhand chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami has announced dearness allowance to about 1 lakh 68 thousand government employees of Uttarakhand. Speaking to media the Uttarakhand chief minister said that the central government has earlier with held the disbursement of DA to the central and state government employees during challenging Covid times but had now released the dearness allowance. As a sequel to the decision of the Union Government, the state government has also announced delivering dearness allowances to the state government employees for the months of July and August, thus benefitting about one lakh sixty eight thousand employees of the state government and one lakh pensioners . This decision of the chief minister has made the state govt employees jubilant especially when the state is going for assembly elections in the month of March, April next year. In a tweet Uttarakhand CM wrote : The Uttarakhand government has formally decided to give 28% Dearness Allowance to benefit 1.68 lakh state government employees and one lakh pensioners. He also announced nominating Indian Idol trophy winner Pawan Deep Rajan, the brand ambassador of tourism, culture and art of Uttarakhand. Wishing for his enlightened future from Ma Saraswati tweeted CM Pushkar Singh Dhami.