India, March 15 -- West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Sunday announced that her government will start paying the pending Dearness Allowance (DA) to state government employees from March.

Sharing the update on X, Banerjee wrote that the government had delivered on its promise to employees and pensioners.

"I am happy to announce that our Ma-Mati-Manush government has delivered on its promise to all its employees and pensioners, and to lakhs of teachers and non-teaching staff of our educational institutions, as well as employees and pensioners of our other grant-in-aid institutions like panchayats, municipal bodies and other local bodies," she said.

She added that employees would start receiving their ROPA 2009 DA arrears from March 2026....