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Bhopal, Oct 21 (PTI) In a Diwali gift to state government employees, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Thursday announced an eight per cent hike in the Dearness Allowance (DA).
The decision took the total DA component paid to government employees to 20 per cent.
Earlier in the day, the Union Cabinet hiked the dearness allowance and dearness relief by 3 per cent for the central government employees.
“The employees of my state are `Karma-yogi" in the true sense.
The service they have rendered during the coronavirus period is certainly commendable," Chouhan said in a statement.
In the last one and a half years, the state had to face two "horrific waves of coronavirus" which led to increase in expenditure and also hit the revenues, he said.