{"id":134335,"date":"2024-10-30T18:46:13","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T13:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timespunjab.com\/?p=134335"},"modified":"2024-11-02T19:13:59","modified_gmt":"2024-11-02T13:43:59","slug":"cms-diwali-bonanza-to-more-than-6-50-lakh-employees-and-pensioners-of-state-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timespunjab.com\/?p=134335","title":{"rendered":"CM\u2019s Diwali Bonanza to more than 6.50 lakh employees and pensioners of state government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>&#8211; Announces 4% hike in DA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Chandigarh, 30 October 2024 :\u00a0<\/strong>In a Diwali bonanza to families of more than 6.50 employees and pensioners of the state government, the Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann on Wednesday announced a hike of 4% in their Dearness allowance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Disclosing this here today a spokesperson of the Chief Minister\u2019s Office said that the Chief Minister gave approval to give 4% Dearness Allowance (DA) to the employees and pensioners, with effect from November 1,2024 thereby enhancing it to 42% from 38%. Bhagwant Singh said that this decision will benefit more than 6.50 lakh employees, pensioners and their families. He said that the employees were a critical segment of the state administration and safeguarding their interests was the government\u2019s top priority. Bhagwant Singh Mann said that no stone is being left unturned for this noble cause and every effort is being made to ensure welfare of employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; Announces 4% hike in DA Chandigarh, 30 October 2024 :\u00a0In a Diwali bonanza to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":134339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,388],"tags":[6190,7891],"class_list":["post-134335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-political","tag-cmbhagwantmann","tag-timespunjabnews-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>CM\u2019s Diwali Bonanza to more than 6.50 lakh employees and pensioners of state government -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" 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