List of Allowances & Advances increased by 25% due to DA touched to 100% with effect from 1.1.2014.

List of Allowances & Advances increased by 25% due to DA touched to 100% with effect from 1.1.2014. 

List of all allowances and advances enhanced by 25% from the existing level from 1st January 2014 in order to enter the Dearness allowance into 100%. Already in January 2011, followed the 6th CPC recommendations, all the allowances and advances had been enhanced by 25% due to Dearness allowance crossed 50% mark. This is second time to get the allowances at revised rates. 

The complete list of allowances and advances to eligible for Central Government employees including Railway employees are compiled by NFIR and the same we reproduced for your ready reference as under..

No.	Name of the  Allowances	6th CPC Revised Rates from 1.9.2008	25% Increased from 1.1.2011 (DA Crossed 50%)	25% Increased from 1.1.2014 (DA Crossed 100%)
1.	Children Education Allowance	Rs.1000	Rs.1250	Rs.1500
2.	Hostel Subsidy Allowance	Rs.3000	Rs.3750	Rs.4500
3.	Child Care Allowance (for disabled)	Rs.1000	Rs.1250	Rs.1500
4.	Washing Allowance	Rs.60	Rs.75	Rs.90
5.	Travelling Allowance	Rs.210 340 400 460 520	Rs.263 425 500 575 650	Rs.316 510 600 690 780
6.	National Holiday Allowance	Rs.170 212 280	Rs.213 265 350	Rs.256 318 420
7.	Breakdown Allowance	Rs.80 120 160 200	Rs.100 150 200 250	Rs.120 180 240 300
8.	Special Allowance for Engg.Gateman	Rs.300	Rs.375	Rs.450
9.	Conveyance Allowance	Rs.370 480 640 750 850 1120 1680 2070 2430 3000	Rs.463 600 800 938 1063 1400 2100 2525 3038 3750	Rs.556 720 960 1126 1276 1680 2520 2980 3646 4500
10.	Cycle Maintenance Allowance	Rs.60	Rs.75	Rs.90
11.	Night Patrolling Allowance	Rs.6	Rs.8	Rs. 12
12.	Road Mileage Allowance	Rs.8 16	Rs.10 20	Rs.12 24
13.	Tribal Area Allowance (Composite HCA)	Rs.240	Rs.300	Rs.360
14.	Hill Area Allowance	Rs.480 600	Rs.600 750	Rs.720 900
15.	Bad Climate Allowance	Rs.400 240	Rs.500 300	Rs.600 360
16.	Nursing Uniform Allowance	Rs.6,000	Rs.7,500	Rs.9,000
17.	Nursing Allowance	Rs.3,200	Rs.4,000	Rs.4,800
18.	Washing Allowance(Nursing Staff)	Rs.300	Rs.375	Rs.450
19.	Hospital Care Allowance	Rs.1,400	Rs.1,750	Rs.2,100
20.	Patient Care Allowance	Rs.1,390	Rs.1,738	Rs.2,086
21.	Project Allowance Construction Survey	Rs.1,500 1000	Rs.1,875 1250	Rs2,250 1500
22.	Compensatory Allowance Construction	Rs.1500 1000	Rs.1875 1250	Rs2250 1500
23.	Composite Transfer Grant CTG	Rs.18 9 4.60	Rs.22.50 11.25 5.75	Rs. 27.00 13.50 6.90
24.	Uniform, Kit Maintenance, W.Allowance	Rs.14000 300 60	Rs.17500 375 75	Rs.21000 450 90
25.	PG Allowance & Annual Allowance	Rs.1000 600	Rs.1250 750	Rs.1500 900
26.	Health & Malaria Inspectors(Additional duty)	Rs.400	Rs.500	Rs.600
27.	Commercial Staff in charge of flag stations	Rs.80	Rs.100	Rs.120
28.	Teachers Library i.ATP-Primary School ii.Middle School iii.High/Hr.Sec.School	Rs.200 300 400	Rs.250 375 500	Rs.300 450 600
29.	Announcers ECRCs/Comml.clerks/TCs	Rs.120	Rs.150	Rs.180
30.	Train Supdt./TS	Rs.600	Rs.750	Rs.900
31.	Steward (Dy.TS) (Rajdhani Exp.)	Rs.240	Rs.300	Rs.360
32.	CTIs/TTEs Flying Squad	Rs.200	Rs.250	Rs.300
33.	Cook/Cook mate	Rs.80	Rs.100	Rs.120
34.	Senior Scale JA Gr.SA Grade (Hindi Officers)	Rs.400 600 1200	Rs.500 750 1500	Rs.600 900 1800

No.	Name of the  Advances	6th CPC Revised Rates from 1.9.2008	25% Increased from 1.1.2011 (DA Crossed 50%)	25% Increased from 1.1.2014 (DA Crossed 100%)
1.	Natural Calamity Advance	Rs.5,000	Rs.6,250	Rs.7,500
2.	Festival Advance	Rs.3,000	Rs.3,750	Rs.4,500
3.	Warm Clothing Advance	Rs.3,000	Rs.3,750	Rs.4,500
4.	Bicycle Advance	Rs.3,000	Rs.3,750	Rs.4,500
5.	Food Advance	Rs.3,000	Rs.3,750	Rs.4,500

10-year-olds can open and operate bank account alone: RBI

MUMBAI : Children older than 10 years will no longer need the help of their parents or guardians to open and operate a savings bank account. To boost financial inclusion, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Tuesday said that banks were at liberty to allow minors above 10 years to independently open and operate savings bank accounts. As of now, banks allow minors to operate bank accounts only along with a parent or a guardian. All children and teenagers below the age of 18 are considered minors under current rules.

RBI also allowed banks to offer additional facilities like internet banking, ATM, debit card and chequebook to a minor. However, the central bank said that such facilities should be within the overall norms that banks will not allow a minor's account to be overdrawn and that these accounts should always remain in credit.

However, RBI has given the leeway to banks to fix the minimum age at which they will allow minors to operate savings bank accounts independently. Banks can also fix a maximum limit on money such minors can have at their disposal through such account. Banks can also decide on what kind of documents will be needed to open accounts by minors, a notification from RBI said.

In a separate notification, the RBI said banks cannot slap charges on customers for not maintaining the minimum balance in inoperative savings and current accounts — in which no transactions have been made for two years. The central bank had announced this change in its April 1 monetary police and was made effective on Tuesday.

In its last policy meeting document, the RBI had also said that banks should not take undue advantage of customer difficulty or inattention relating to banking services. "Instead of levying penal charges for non-maintenance of minimum balance in ordinary savings bank accounts, banks should limit services available on such accounts to those available to Basic Savings Bank Deposit Accounts and restore the services when the balances improve to the minimum required level," the policy document had said.

In recent times, there have been cases where due to penal charges in inoperative accounts, customers had negative balances. And when they went to close such accounts, they were asked to pay up. The latest RBI circular will avoid such situations.

Source:-The Times of India