By the issued Press Release of Consumer Price Index for Industrial Workers of April-2015 on 29th May, 2015. The All-India CPI-IW for April, 2015 increased by 2 points and pegged at 256 (two hundred and fifty six). On 1-month percentage change, it increased by (+) 0.79 per cent between March, 2015 and April, 2015 when compared with the increase of (+) 1.26 per cent between the same two months a year ago..
As per the Index AICPIN Value the Additional Dearness Allowance will be hike by 6% from July-2015 i.e. 116%.
How Dearness Allowance is calculated ?
Month Year / CPI(IW) BY 2001=100 / Total / Average / App. DA / DA%
First is the month and year. Then the CPI (IW) Base Year 2001=100 and the relevant data. In the next column, you have the sum total of all the 12 months, i.e., the total of the declared AIPCIN numbers for the past 12 months. Next comes the division of the sum total by 12.
The next step is the most crucial one. You will have to find out by how much it exceeds 115.76. You will have to calculate the excess as percentage of 115.76.
(12 Monthly Average) – 115.76
-------------------------------------- X 100 = Percentage increase in prices
115.76
