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D.A. hike

Sir, — The Union Cabinet on March 31 approved a three per cent increase in the rates of dearness allowance for Central Government employees and an equal hike in dearness relief for pensioners. This will naturally have a fallout on State Government employees and pensioners too. The Cabinet is of the opinion that five-digit salary employees and four-digit pensioners are the only category of persons affected by the high cost of living. It is not aware of another set of employees who depend on the interest derived out of the lumpsum amount they received at the time of retirement. Dearness allowance was introduced during World War II by the British to compensate for the rise in the cost of living and after the war, this allowance seems to have no relevance either — for continuing it or for increasing it periodically only for the salaried class and pensioners.

K.V. Narayan,

Bangalore

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