India May Increase Dearness Allowance Every Three Months
India has a group called the Pay Commission. It looks at pay for government workers. This is the 8th Pay Commission.
There is a plan for a payment called Dearness Allowance, or DA. This is extra money for workers. It helps when prices go up.
Now, DA changes every six months. But there is a new plan. DA may change every three months instead.
This would be good news for many central government employees. These are people who work for the national government.
There could also be a change for pension. A pension is money paid to workers after they stop working. Some retired workers may get a different pension amount.
Right now, this is not final. It is only a report. People are waiting for more news from the government.
Vocabulary15 words
- Pay Commission
- a group that decides how much money government workers get
- Dearness Allowance
- extra money given to workers when prices go up
- central government employees
- people who work for the national government
- pension
- money given to a person after they stop working
- retired
- when someone has stopped working, usually because they are older
- report
- a piece of news or information
- final
- not able to be changed; the last decision
- government
- the group of people who run a country
- plan
- an idea about what to do next
- worker
- a person who has a job
- extra
- more than usual
- national
- about a whole country
- change
- to make something different
- amount
- how much of something there is
- news
- new information about something happening
Quiz
Answer key
1. Dearness Allowance 2. Every three months 3. False
Fill-in-the-blank listening
Play the audio again and fill in the missing words as you listen.
India has a group called the _____. It looks at pay for government workers. This is the 8th Pay Commission.
There is a plan for a payment called _____, or DA. This is extra money for workers. It helps when prices go up.
Now, DA changes every _____ months. But there is a new plan. DA may change every _____ months instead.
This would be good news for many _____ employees. These are people who work for the national government.
There could also be a change for _____. A pension is money paid to workers after they stop working.
Right now, this is not _____. It is only a report.