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7th CPC HRA – Justification for Retaining the Existing Rates of 10%, 20% and 30% “How justified is the stand of 7th CPC to apply a factor 0.8 to suppress the quantum of allowances is beyond comprehension.” HOUSE RENT ALLOWANCE Housing accommodation is provided to a small segment of the Civil Servants. While the percentage of satisfaction is very high at the senior level Officers, Employees at the lower levels are to depend upon the market for a dwelling place. Of late recruitment at Gr B and C levels in Central Govt Offices is on the basis of an all India Examination and the regional recruitment which was in prevalence a decade back has been dispensed with. Once, recruited, he/she is perforce to be posted outside his/her home state making it necessary to search for a dwelling unit at the place of his/her posting and compete with those workers in the private sector whose salary levels in certain cases are phenomenally high. Housing in the country, despite introduction of various...

Grant of House Rent Allowance (HRA) to Railway employees Grant of House Rent Allowance (HRA) to Railway employees posted at S.A.S. Nagar Mohali at par with Changigarh rates. GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS RAILWAY BOARD RBE No.45/2017 No.E(P&A)II-2015/HRA-7 New Delhi, dated 12.05.2017 The General Managers(P)/CAOs, All Indian Railways and Production Units etc. Sub: Grant of House Rent Allowance (HRA) to Railway employees posted at S.A.S. Nagar Mohali at par with Changigarh rates. The question of grant of House Rent Allowance (HRA) at rates admissible in the classified city of Chandigarh (‘Y’ class) to the Railway employees posted at Mohali has been considered in Board’s office in consonance with instructions of Ministry of Finance and the President is pleased to decide that the Railway employees whose place shall be entitled the limits of the notified area committee of S.A.S. Nagar Mohali shall be enttiled to draw HRA at the rates admissible withi...