The revised DA will be paid along with the January 2026 salary, payable on 1 February 2026. Arrears for the period from 1 July 2023 to 31 December 2025 will be credited to the General Provident Fund accounts of eligible employees.
Published Jan 13, 2026 | 8:31 AM ⚊ Updated Jan 13, 2026 | 8:31 AM
Indian money. (iStock)
Synopsis: The Telangana government issued orders revising Dearness Allowance for serving employees and Dearness Relief for pensioners with retrospective effect from 1 July 2023.
The Telangana government issued orders revising Dearness Allowance (DA) for serving employees and Dearness Relief (DR) for pensioners with retrospective effect from 1 July 2023, providing long-pending relief against rising prices to lakhs of beneficiaries across the state.
According to Government Order (GO) No.2 issued by the Finance Department on 12 January 2026, the DA for employees drawing pay under the Revised Pay Scales (RPS), 2020 has been increased from 30.03 percent to 33.67 percent of basic pay.
For employees governed by RPS, 2015, the DA has been enhanced from 68.628 percent to 73.344 percent of basic pay, with monetary benefit from the same date.
The revised DA will apply to employees of Zilla Parishads, Mandal Parishads, Gram Panchayats, municipalities, municipal corporations, agricultural market committees, Zilla Grandhalaya Samsthas and work-charged establishments. Teaching and non-teaching staff of aided institutions and universities, under both RPS-2015 and RPS-2020, are also covered.
The government has also revised DA rates for staff drawing UGC and AICTE pay scales. Employees under UGC/AICTE Pay Scales, 2016, will receive DA at 46 percent, up from 42 percent, while those under UGC/AICTE Pay Scales, 2006 ,will get DA at 230 percent, an increase from 221 percent, with effect from 1 July 2023.
Full-time and contingent employees whose remuneration was revised under earlier government orders will be entitled to DA at 7.704 percent of pay, at a cumulative rate of 171.18 percent. Part-time assistants and Village Revenue Assistants have been granted an ad hoc increase of ₹100 per month from 1 July 2023 until their absorption into government service.
The revised DA will be paid along with the January 2026 salary, payable on 1 February 2026. Arrears for the period from 1 July 2023 to 31 December 2025 will be credited to the General Provident Fund (GPF) accounts of eligible employees. However, employees who are due to retire on or before 30 April 2026 will receive the arrears in 30 equal monthly instalments.
For employees under the Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS), 10 percent of the DA arrears will be credited to their PRAN accounts along with the government’s matching contribution, while the remaining 90 percent will be paid in 30 instalments from January 2026.
Full-time contingent employees not eligible for GPF will also receive arrears in instalments. In cases where an employee has died prior to the issue of the orders, legal heirs will be paid the arrears in a lump sum.
In a parallel decision, the government has sanctioned a revision of Dearness Relief for state government pensioners with the same retrospective effect from 1 July 2023.
As per orders issued by the Finance Department, DR for pensioners under Revised Pay Scales (RPS), 2020 has been increased from 30.03 percent to 33.67 percent of basic pension. This applies to employees who retired on or after 1 July 2018 and those who retired earlier whose pensions were consolidated under earlier orders.
Dearness Relief for pensioners under RPS, 2015 has been enhanced from 68.628 percent to 73.344 percent. Pensioners who retired under UGC/AICTE Pay Scales, 2016 will receive DR at 46 percent, while those under UGC/AICTE Pay Scales, 2006, will get DR at 230 percent, up from 221 percent.
The revised DR covers service and family pensioners of the State government, including teaching and non-teaching staff of municipalities, Panchayat Raj institutions and aided educational institutions, as well as recipients of compassionate, wound and extraordinary pensions.
However, financial assistance grantees and others not entitled to DR under existing rules are excluded. The DR amount will be rounded off to the next rupee.
The enhanced DR will be paid along with the January 2026 pension, disbursed in February 2026. Arrears from 1 July 2023 to 31 December 2025 will be released in 30 equal monthly instalments starting January 2026.
(Edited by Muhammed Fazil.)
