The Kerala government on Friday ordered an enhancement of the DA for teaching staff under the UGC, AICTE, and medical education schemes, and the DR for UGC pensioners and family pensioners in the state.

The finance department said the rate of Dearness Allowance payable to teaching staff under these schemes, who shifted to the revised scale from January 2016 or later, will be increased from 42% to 46%.

It also said that the DA rate for teaching staff under the University Grants Commission, All India Council for Technical Education, and medical education schemes, who continue in the sixth pay scale effective from January 2006 or thereafter, will be enhanced from 221% to 230%.

Further, the rate of Dearness Relief payable to UGC pensioners and family pensioners whose pension was revised as

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