{"id":315521,"date":"2019-10-09T09:02:01","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T09:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=315521"},"modified":"2019-10-09T10:35:30","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T10:35:30","slug":"cabinet-approve-5-hike-in-dearness-allowance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/cabinet-approve-5-hike-in-dearness-allowance\/","title":{"rendered":"Cabinet approve 5% hike in dearness allowance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-315524 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/prakash-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"444\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/prakash-11.jpg 345w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/prakash-11-300x237.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 444px) 100vw, 444px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Ahead of Diwali, the\u00a0Cabinet has decided to hike dearness allowance\u00a0by 5%, Union Minister Prakash Javadekar announced on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The dearness allowance will be raised to 17 percent from 12 percent and\u00a0is likely to benefit 50 lakh government employees and 62 lakh pensioners, the minister said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The decision was approved at a cabinet meeting this morning. The move will cost the\u00a0exchequer a total of Rs 16,000 crore.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of Diwali, the\u00a0Cabinet has decided to hike dearness allowance\u00a0by 5%, Union Minister Prakash Javadekar announced on Wednesday. The dearness allowance will be raised to 17 percent from 12 percent and\u00a0is likely to benefit 50 lakh government employees and 62 lakh pensioners, the minister said. The decision was approved at a cabinet meeting this morning. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":315524,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[168,4475],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315521"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315521"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315528,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315521\/revisions\/315528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/315524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}