7th Pay Commission, DA/DR 38% Confirm from July, 2022,Consumer Price Index for Industrial Workers (2016-100) - June, 2022

            7th Pay Commission, DA/DR 38% Confirm from July, 2022! All India CPI-IW for June, 2022 increased by 0.2 points and stood at 129.2.

  The All India CPI-IW for June, 2022 stood at 129.2 (one hundred and twenty nine point two) with an increase of 0.2 points.  According to this, dearness allowance for central government employees and dearness relief for pensioners has now been confirmed to be 38% with an increase of 4 percent in the current rate.  As per the prevailing practice this increase will be approved by the cabinet in the month of September, 2022.  The DA/DR table from July, 2022 is as follows:-

    GOVERNMENT OF INDIA 

MINISTRY OF LABOUR & EMPLOYMENT 

                  LABOUR BUREAU

F.No. 5/1/2021-CPI

'CLEREMONT, 

SHIMLA-171004 

DATED: 29 July, 2022

                            Press Release

Consumer Price Index for Industrial Workers (2016-100) - June, 2022

The Labour Bureau, an attached office of the M/o Labour & Employment, has been compiling Consumer Price Index for Industrial Workers every month on the basis of retail prices collected from 317 markets spread over 88 industrially important centres in the country. The index is compiled for 88 centres and All-India and is released on the last working day of succeeding month. The index for the month of June, 2022 is being released in this press release.

The All-India CPI-IW for June, 2022 increased by 0.2 points and stood at 129.2 (one hundred twenty nine point two). On 1-month percentage change, it increased by 0.16 per cent with respect to previous month compared to an increase of 0.91 per cent recorded between corresponding months a year ago.

The maximum upward pressure in current index came from Food & Beverages group contributing 0.20 percentage points to the total change. At item level Potato, Onion, Tomato, Cabbage, Apple, Banana, Coriander, Chilly Dry, Fish Fresh, Poultry Chicken, Vada, Idli Dosa, Cooked Meal, Cooking Gas, kerosene Oil, Electricity Domestic etc. are responsible for the rise in index. However, this increase was largely checked by Petrol for Vehicle, Rice, Mango, Chilli Green, Lemon, Lady Finger, Parwal, Pineapple, Soyabeen Oil, Sunflower Oil etc. putting downward pressure on the index.

At centre level, Puducherry recorded a maximum increase of 2.6 points followed by Amritsar and Tripura with 2.2 and 2.0 points respectively. Among others, 15 centres recorded increase between 1 to 1.9 points, 33 centres between 0.1 to 0.9 points. On the contrary, Sangrur recorded a maximum decrease of 2.4 points. Among others, 5 centers recorded decrease between 1 to 1.9 points, 25 centres between 0.1 to 0.9 points. Rest of 6 centres' indices remained stationary.

Year-on-year inflation for the month stood at 6.16 per cent compared to 6.97 per cent for the previous month and 5.57 per cent during the corresponding month a year before. Similarly, Food inflation stood at 6.73 per cent against 7.92 per cent of the previous month and 5.61 per cent during the corresponding month a year ago.

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