{"id":322565,"date":"2020-04-24T12:22:33","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T12:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=322565"},"modified":"2020-04-24T12:22:33","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T12:22:33","slug":"freezing-of-da-insensitive-govt-should-suspend-bullet-train-central-vista-projects-rahul-gandhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/freezing-of-da-insensitive-govt-should-suspend-bullet-train-central-vista-projects-rahul-gandhi\/","title":{"rendered":"Freezing of DA insensitive; govt should suspend bullet train, Central Vista projects: Rahul Gandhi"},"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=\"size-full wp-image-308590 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/rahul.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"815\" height=\"545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/rahul.jpg 815w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/rahul-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/rahul-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/rahul-696x465.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/rahul-628x420.jpg 628w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 815px) 100vw, 815px\" \/>Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday said that the government\u2019s decision to freeze Dearness Allowance (DA) of Central government employees and pensioners for a year was insensitive and inhuman, instead the government should have suspended bullet train and\u00a0Central Vista beautification project.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cIt is an insensitive and inhuman decision of the government to cut DA of central employees, pensioners and jawans, serving the public while fighting COVID-19,\u201d Rahul tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Lakhs and crores are being spent on the Bullet Train and Central Vista beautification project which should have been suspended,\u201d Rahul added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On Thursday, the Central government announced suspension of DA hike for the central employees for the year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In a memorandum issued on April 23, 2020, Ministry of Finance said that \u201cin view of the crisis arising out of COVID-19, it has been decided that the additional installment of DA payable to central government employees and Dearness Relief (DR) to central government pensioners, due from 1st January 2020 shall not be paid. The additional installments of DA and DR due from 1st July 2020 and 1st January 2021 shall also not be paid. However, DA and DR at current rates will continue to be paid.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday said that the government\u2019s decision to freeze Dearness Allowance (DA) of Central government employees and pensioners for a year was insensitive and inhuman, instead the government should have suspended bullet train and\u00a0Central Vista beautification project. \u201cIt is an insensitive and inhuman decision of the government to cut DA of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":308590,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[579],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322565"}],"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=322565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322570,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322565\/revisions\/322570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/308590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}