{"id":24458,"date":"2020-04-25T19:21:01","date_gmt":"2020-04-25T13:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/da-cut-no-need-to-impose-hardship-on-govt-servants-manmohan-singh\/"},"modified":"2020-04-25T19:21:01","modified_gmt":"2020-04-25T13:51:01","slug":"da-cut-no-need-to-impose-hardship-on-govt-servants-manmohan-singh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=24458","title":{"rendered":"DA Cut | No need to impose hardship on govt servants: Manmohan Singh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><strong>Former Prime Minister opposes government\u2019s decision to roll back hike in allowance<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/no-need-to-impose-hardship-on-govt-servants-says-manmohan-singh-on-da-cut\/article31430002.ece\">PTI<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Opposing the government\u2019s decision to cut back on hike in dearness allowance (DA) for government employees and pensioners, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said he did not think that at \u201cthis stage\u201d such cuts were \u201cnecessary\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government, in an announcement on Friday, rolled back the hike in DA announced for 1.14 crore government employees and pensioners, with an aim of saving up to \u20b921,000 crore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a two-minute video clip released by the Congress, showing the meeting of the party\u2019s consultative group via video-conference, the party slammed the BJP government for continuing with construction of \u201cvanity projects\u201d such as the new Parliament building and the central vista, bullet train and so on while cutting into the allowances of government servants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe should be on the side of the people whose DA is being cut. I sincerely believe that it is not necessary at this stage to impose hardship on the government servants and the armed forces personnel,\u201d Dr. Singh said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the time of the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown, with many struggling for bare necessities, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi said that the government was not cutting back on extraneous expenditure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI see the problem is that you are building your central vista at the same time. You are taking money from the middle class, not giving money to the poor people and spending it on central vista,\u201d Mr. Gandhi said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lok Sabha MP Manish Tewari opined that before the government went around cutting everyone\u2019s allowances and salaries, it should first set up an \u201cexpenditure rationalisation commission\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said if projects such as the reconstruction of central vista were halted, the government could easily save up to \u20b92-2.5 lakh crore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Prime Minister opposes government\u2019s decision to roll back hike in allowance PTI Opposing the government\u2019s decision to cut back on hike in dearness allowance (DA) for government employees and pensioners, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said he did not think that at \u201cthis stage\u201d such cuts were \u201cnecessary\u201d. The government, in an announcement on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24460,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}