Agartala, Dec 27: Dr. Manik Saha-led government in Tripura has announced 12 percent hike in DA/ DR for regular employees and pensioners. In another major decision, the Tripura government has also increased the remuneration of DRWs, MRWs, PTWs and contingent workers.

The Chief Minister accompanied by Deputy Chief Minister Jishnu Dev Varma, Chief Secretary J.K. Sinha and Finance secretary Brijesh Pandey announced the two major decisions at a press conference on Tuesday.

The Chief Minister said, the decisions would come into effect from December 1, 2022. An additional amount of Rs. 1440 crore would be required annually to implement the decisions.

With this decision, the state government employees would now be entitled to get 20 percent DA in total. The fixed-pay Group-C and Group-D employees will also be benefitted at the same rate. 

The increase in DA/DR would benefit around 1,04,600 regular employees and about 80,800 pensioners. 

The monthly wage of DRW (Group-C) will now increase from Rs. 7,020 to Rs. 10,920; monthly wage of DRW (Technical) will increase from Rs. 7,280 to Rs. 11,180; monthly wage of DRW (Group-D) will increase from Rs. 6,458.40 to Rs. 10,010; monthly wage of permanent workers will increase from Rs. 6,718 to Rs. 10,270; monthly wage of MRW (Group D) will increase from Rs. 7, 344 to Rs. 11,380; monthly allowance of chief priests will increase from Rs. 8,944 to Rs. 12,980; monthly allowance of Adhikari will increase from Rs. 8,654 to Rs. 12,690; salary of part time workers of four hours will increase from Rs. 5,900 to Rs. 8,900; part time workers of three hours will increase from Rs. 5,670 to Rs. 8,670; part time workers of two hours will increase from Rs. 5,450 to Rs. 8,450.