7th Pay Commission Report Special Duty Allowance (SDA)
7th Pay Commission Report for Special Duty Allowance (SDA) of Retained. Rationalized by a factor of o.8
Special Duty Allowance (SDA) is granted to attract civilian employees to seek posting in North Eastern and Ladakh regions, in view of the risk and hardship prevailing in these areas. Currently, the rate of SDA is 37.5 percent of Basic Pay for AIS officers and 12.5 percent of Basic Pay for other employees.
There is a vociferous demand from employees (other than AIS officers) posted in these areas for parity with AIS officers.
Analysis and Recommendations
The Commission is of the view that AIS officers are allotted cadres, irrespective of their choice, and they are required to work in these cadres for considerable periods of time. As such, a higher rate of SDA for them is justified.
Accordingly, in line with our general approach of rationalizing the percentage based allowances by a factor of 0.8, SDA for AIS officers should be paid at the rate of 30 per
Source: 7th CPC Report
P.S.Chakravorty says
Anomaly in the pay matrix yet to be resolved. Rate of increament is found non-uniform @3% and below in various Levels causing disparity in the pay matrix.