Railway Board decision on House Rent Allowance – Orders Issued

Grant of House Rent Allowance to Railway employees posted to new Zones/new Divisions

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS

(RAILWAY BOARD)

No.E(P&A)II-98/HRA-6

RBE No: 20/2016

New Delhi, dated 17.02.2016

The General Manager/CAO’s

All Indian Railways & Production units.

Sub.: Grant of House Rent Allowance to Railway employees posted to new Zones/new Divisions – Regarding.

Attention is invited to the instructions contained in Board’s letters of even number dated 9.3.2004, 9.8.2005, 9.8.2006, 12.12.2007, 24.10.2008, 10.12.2009 , 01.07.2013 and 24.07.2014 on the above subject.

2. The matter has been considered by the Board subsequent to issue of letter No. E(G)2009 QR 1-2 dated 20.10.2014 and it has been decided that railway employees posted to ECR and NWR may be allowed house rent allowance upto 31.12.2015 on the same terms and conditions laid down in the letter of even number dated 09.03.2004 ibid and as amended/clarified from time to time.

3. This issues with the concurrence of the Finance Directorate of the Ministry of Railways.

(Salim Md. Ahmed)

Dy.Director/E(P&A)-II

Railway Board

source : NFIR

7th Pay Commission proposes to increase HRA of Central Government Employees

7th Pay Commission proposes to increase House Rent Allowance of Central Government employees

Seventh Pay Commission To Propose Higher HRA

New Delhi: The Seventh Pay Commission is likely to propose to increase House Rent Allowance (HRA) of central government employees, besides their basic salaries.

By giving House Rent Allowance hikes, the Pay Commission is likely to seek to encourage property owners to rent out their properties, reduce the shortage of dwellings and to provide ‘housing for all central government employees’.

Besides the basic salary, a large portion of central government employees’ salary is the House Rent Allowance; some changes will be made in that category this time.

Instead of the existing three areas for house rent, four are likely to be created. ‘X’ class cities Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai and Pune, where employees will get 40 percent of their basic salary as House Rent Allowance (HRA), increasing from the existing 30 percent.

Employees posted at ‘Y’ class cities covers near about 90 stations, will receive 30 percent of basic salary, instead of the existing 20 percent.

A new area will be opened for the district towns; the central government employees will get 20 percent of their basic salary as House Rent Allowance (HRA) there.

In other areas, the house rent allowance will be 10 percent of basic, which is the existing rate of House Rent Allowance (HRA) of ‘Z’ class cities.

The existing qualifying threshold of population for HRA classification is 50 lakh and above for X, 5-50 lakh for Y and below 5 lakh for Z class cities.

However, the central government’s salary bill will rise by 9.56% to Rs 1,00,619 crore with the implementation of the recommendations of the Seventh Pay Commission, according to a statement tabled in Parliament by Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on August 12.

Source: TST

Re-classification of Cities/Towns for the purpose of grant of HRA to CG Employees

Re-classification of Cities/Towns  for the purpose of HRA – Dopt Orders

G.I. Min. Dept. of Per. & Trg., O.M.No.2/5/2014-E.II(B), dated 21.7.2015

Subject : Re-Classification / Upgradation of Cities / Towns on the basis of Census-2011 for the purpose of grant of House Rent Allowance (HRA) to Central Government employees.

Reference is invited to this Department’s O.M. No.2(13)/2008-E.II(B) dated 29.08.2008 relating to grant of House Rent Allowance (HRA) to Central Government employees on the recommendations of the 6th Central Pay Commission (CPC) whereby a list of cities / towns classified as “X”, “Y” and “Z” for the purpose of grant of HRA was enclosed as Annexure. The matter relating to re-classification of cities / towns on the basis of Census-2011 for the purpose of grant of HRA to Central Government employees has been considered by the Government.

2. The President is pleased to decide that in supersession of all the existing orders relating to classification of cities/towns for the purpose of grant of HRA to Central Government employees, cities/towns shall now be re-classified as “X”, “Y” and “Z” for the purpose of HRA as enumerated in the Annexure to these orders.

3. Consequent upon implementation of the recommendations of the 5th Central Pay Commission, certain cities / towns were placed in a lower classification as compared to their existing classification for HRA purpose, vide this Department’s O.M. No.2(30)/97-E.II(B) dated 03.10.97. However, these cities/towns were allowed to retain their existing higher classification, vide Para 3 thereof; and further extended vide O.M. No.2(21)/E.II(B)/2004 dated 16.03.2005 & O.M. No.2(13)/2008-E.II(B) dated 07.01.2009. As other cities / towns to which protection of retaining earlier higher classification was allowed, got upgraded during the intervening period and as on date only two cities i.e. Ajmer in Rajasthan and Durgapur in West Bengal were retaining such protection. Consequent upon upgradation of these two cities also on the basis of their population as per Census-2011, provisions contained in Para 3 of this Department’s O.M. No. 2(30)/97-E.II(B) dated 03.10.97 which Were allowed to further continue vide O.M. dated 16.03.2005 & 07.01.2009, stand withdrawn/discontinued.

4. Special orders allowing continuance of HRA at Delhi (‘X” class city) rates to Central Government employees posted at Faridabad, Ghaziabad, NOIDA and Gurgaon, at Jalandhar (“Y” class city) rates to Jalandhar Cantt., at “Y” class city rates to Shillong, Goa & Port Blair vide this Department’s O.M. No.2(13)/2008-E.II(B) dated 29.08.2008, and continuance of HRA at par with Chandigarh (“Y” class city) to Panchkula vide this Department’s O.M. No.2(13)/2008-E.II(B) dated 04.03.2011, shall continue to be applicable till the recommendations of 7th CPC are considered by the Government.

5. These orders shall take effect from 1st April, 2015.

6. The Orders will apply to all civilian employees of the Central Government. The orders will also be applicable to the civilian employees paid from the Defence services Estimates. In respect of Armed Forces personnel and Railway employees, separate orders will be issued by the Ministry of Defence and the Ministry of Railways, respectively.

7. In so far as the persons serving in the Indian Audit and Accounts Department are concerned, these orders issue in consultation with the comptroller & Auditor General of India.

8. Hindi version is attached.

Authority: www.persmin.gov.in

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House Rent Allowance is hike for Bank Employees as per 2011 Census Report

Hike in House Rent Allowance for Bank Employees as per 2011 Census

Bank Employees News : Based on the Census of 2011, the House Rent Allowance for Bank employees of a few cities are going to be hiked.

AIBEA Circular

Date : 6th July, 2015

Dear Comrades,
HOUSE RENT ALLOWANCE AS PER 2011 CENSUS

Recently Govt. of India has issued the Gazette notification for the Census as of 2011. It is the 15th Census in India beginning from 1872 and 7th since our independence.

Some data from the Census:

·         Population as per this Census in 2011: 121,01,93,422

·         Rank: No. 2 with 17.5% of world population ( 1st is China: 19%)

·         No. of Districts: 640

·         Most populace State : UP

·         Least populous State: Sikkim

·         Most populated metro : Mumbai : 1,84,14,288

·         Most Literate State : Kerala ( 94 %)

·         Least Literate State : Bihar ( 64 %)

·         Sex Ratio : 940 Female : 1000 Male

·         Literacy of Male : 82.14 %

·         Literacy of Female : 65.46 %

·         Highest populace District: Thane, Mumbai

·         100 % Literacy District : Palakkad, Kerala

·         100 % Banking State : Kerala

·         100 % Banking District : Palakkad

·         Increase in population from last census in 2001 to 2011: 18.1 crore

Some disturbing facts:

·         Total household: 24.39 cr; Rural households accounted for 17.91 cr (73%)

·         30 % of Indian rural households doesn’t have land and depend on casual labor for subsistence.

·         As many as 2.37 crore (one in eight) families in villages live in houses of one room with ‘kaccha’ walls and roof.

·         23.52 % rural families have no literate adult above 25 years

·         74 % of the rural households survived on a monthly income of less than Rs 5,000 of its highest earner

·         51 % of the households are engaged in casual, manual labour and 30 % in cultivation.

·         7 in 10 homes in rural live on less than Rs 200 a day

·         18.06 lakh people are still engaged in manual scavenging

·         Households with destitutes or those living on alms is over 6.68 lakh

·         As many as 4.08 lakh households rely on rag-picking.

Higher HRA for bank employees: Employees in the below-mentioned upgraded centres would get the revised/higher HRA rates and receive the arrears from 2011.

45 lacs and above HRA will be paid at 10% – Surat, Pune

12 to 45 lacs HRA will be paid at 9% – Asansol, Vijayawada, Rajkot, Faridabad, Srinagar, Jamshedpur, Kannur, Trivandrum, Mallapuram, Thrissur, Kozhikode, Jabalpur, Vasai-Virar, Nasik, Allahabad, Meerut, Ghaziabad

5 to 12 lacs HRA will be paid at 7.5% – Nellore, Kollam, Gulbarga, Ujain, Nanded Waghala, Malegaon, Sangli, Rourkela, Erode, Saharanpur, Noida, Firozabad, Jhansi, Siliguri, Durgapur.

In addition, in various towns and cities, number of small places in the outskirts have been brought as part of the bigger town/city/UA and such places would also attract the higher HRA of the concerned town/city/Urban Agglomeration.

With greetings,

Yours Comradely,

sd/-

(C.H.Venkatachalam)

General Secretary

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