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No proposal to cut 30 percent salary of Central Government Employees


The Union Ministry of Finance tweet that , “There is no proposal under consideration of Govt for any cut whatsoever in the existing salary of any category of central government employees. The reports in some section of media are false and have no basis whatsoever.

The Union government clearly mention that they have no proposal for any cut in salaries of the Central Government Employees due to the Coronavirus pandemic. There were many new comming for different sources that "proposal on 30 per cent salary cut for central government employees was under consideration." Government’s fact-checker PIB Fact Check said, “There is no proposal under consideration of Government for any cut in their salaries. Already denied by the Minister.”

They also mentioned that there is no proposal to increase work hours of employees to 10 hours from 9 am to 7 pm.

The Central Government froze Dearness Allowance (DA) and Dearness Relief (DR) for Central Government Employees and Pensioners respectively. The DA and DR have been frozen till June 2021. 

NO Additional Installments of DA to Employees, Pensioners - Karnataka Govt


Karnataka government clearly clarified that they won’t be paying additional installments of DA to Employees and  Pensioners for the period of January 1,2020 till June 30,2021. The decision is with respect to the crisis arising out of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Government order mentioned as
The additional installments of Dearness Allowance with effect from January 1, 2020 payable to State Government employees and pensioners including employees and pensioners on UGC/ICAR/AICTE/NJPC scales of pay shall not be paid

The state government mentioned as this is from from the Centre’s orders on freezing the dearness allowance and dearness relief to all. The state government also informed that additional installments of Dearness Allowance which will be due from July 1, 2020 and January 1, 2021 also not to be released until further orders from the Central government.

The state government also informed, all employees and pensioners are not entitled to the arrears of dearness allowance for the period from January 1,2020 till June 30,2021.