7th Pay Commission: Good news for govt employees of this state, 7% DA hiked from New Year 2025

DA hike news: Hours before the New Year 2025, the Manipur government announced a 7 per cent increase in dearness allowance (DA) for government employees, who will now get 39 per cent DA instead of 32 from January 2025.

Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh also highlighted the progress in several ongoing government initiatives ranging from supporting entrepreneurs to start-up ventures. He announced that the state government has provided collateral-free loans to 426 internally displaced people under the Chief Minister's Entrepreneurship Support Scheme.

Under this programme, the government provides collateral-free loans of Rs 50,000 to the people displaced due to ethnic violence. Successful start-ups, funded by the Manipur government, will start employing internally displaced people, Singh said.

"So far, around seven start-ups have been identified and they ready to employ 432 displaced people," he said. The chief minister also said, around 500 youths shall be "provided residential skills at Delhi for cabin crew placements in Air India and IndiGo".

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The funding for the training will be borne by the Ministry of Tourism, and the priority will be given to the internally displaced people, Singh said. Under the 'One Family One Livelihood' scheme, loans up to Rs 10 lakhs with a 30 per cent subsidy would be provided to the targeted 5,000 beneficiaries.

"So far 745 have been shortlisted and nine have been provided loans for support under the scheme," Singh said. He also said that the state government in collaboration with Alliance Air is introducing additional flights from Imphal to three cities for one year, which shall be launched from January, 2025. The ticket price will be kept under Rs 5,000 and the government will bear the excess amount if the price exceeds the limit, the chief minister said.

(With inputs from PTI)