Haryana raises DA to 63% and releases ₹4,470 crore, including Lado Lakshmi's 13th instalment

Haryana has raised the dearness allowance to 63% for its employees and pensioners, Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini announced in Chandigarh on Friday, as he released ₹4,470.77 crore to 52,21,083 beneficiaries of state schemes.

The 3 percentage point rise, from 60%, takes effect from July 1, 2026. Saini said it covers about 5.38 lakh people: 2.78 lakh government employees and 2.60 lakh pensioners. Dearness relief for pensioners goes up by the same amount.

Lado Lakshmi and pensions

The money included the 13th instalment of the Deendayal Lado Lakshmi Yojana: ₹222.52 crore credited to 10,59,000 women. Saini said ₹2,689.15 crore has now been paid out under the scheme across 13 instalments. Its second phase, which began on September 17, raised the annual income limit to ₹1.80 lakh.

Social security pensions under 15 state schemes accounted for ₹1,135.21 crore, reaching 35,26,358 people. Under the Har Ghar-Har Grihini Yojana, ₹24.25 crore in September’s subsidy went to 6,05,000 women who had refilled their gas cylinders, taking the total so far to ₹404.46 crore.

The Deen Dayal Upadhyay Antyodaya Parivar Suraksha Yojana (Dayalu) is paying ₹202.99 crore to 5,429 families, which brings its total to ₹3,682.83 crore.

Funds for villages and towns

Saini said ₹1,158 crore of the ₹2,316 crore earmarked by the State Finance Commission for rural bodies has been released in two instalments to 22 zila parishads, 143 panchayat samitis and 6,230 gram panchayats. Of a ₹2,754 crore budget for urban bodies, ₹1,727.80 crore has gone to municipalities.

At the same briefing, the Chief Minister said the state had paid ₹9,880 crore to paddy farmers this season and brought beekeepers under its horticulture insurance scheme.