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7th Pay Commission: Rate of House Rent Allowance

June 27, 2019 admin 2 Comments

House Rent Allowance Calculation from Basic Salary for Central Government Employees

Income Tax Exemption Rules on House Rent Allowance

Rate of HRA after 7th Pay Commission:

“HRA is a compensation for expenses in connection with the rent of the residential accommodation to be hired/leased by the employee and is graded based on the level of the employee”

HRA paid from 2008 @ 30% for X (population of 50 lakh & above), 20% for Y (5 to 50 lakh) and 10% for Z (below 5 lakh) category of cities as per 6th CPC Recommendations. Now, 7th CPC has recommended reduction in the existing rates to 24% for X, 16% for Y and 8% for Z category of cities. 

7th CPC HRA Rates w.e.f. 1.7.2017
City Classification HRA Rates
‘X’ Cities 24% of Basic Pay
‘Y’ Cities 16% of Basic Pay
‘Z’ Cities 8% of Basic Pay

The rates of HRA will not be less than Rs.5400/-, 3600/- & 1800/- at X, Y & Z class cities respectively.

The rates of HRA will be revised to 27%, 18% and 9% for X, Y & Z class cities respectively when Dearness Allowance (DA) corsses 25 percent and further revised to 30%, 20% and 10% when DA corsses 50%.

Special orders on continuance of HRA at Delhi ‘X’ class city) rates to Central Government employees posted at Faridabad, Ghaziabad, Noida and Gurgaon, at Jalandhar (‘Y’ class city) rates to Jalandhar Cantt. at “Y” class city rates to Shillong, Goa & Port Blair and HRA at par with Chandigarh (‘Y’ class city) to Panchkula, S.A.S. Nagar(Mohali)

The allowances relating to CILQ. FAA and SNLQ henceforth stand abolished as a separate allowance. Eligible employees to be governed by the newly proposed provisions for Housing for Personnel Below Officers Rank (PBORs)

NPA & MSP:  Add-ons like NPA, MSP, etc. should not be included while working out HRA [Para 8.7.16 of 7th CPC Report

7 CPC HRA Calculation Table:

HRA Calculation with minimum pay of all levels in Pay Matrix.

Pay Matrix Minimum Pay 24% 16% 8%
Level-1 18000 5400
4320
3600
2880
1800
1440
Level-2 19900 5400
4776
3600
3184
1800
1592
Level-3 21700 5400
5208
3600
3472
1800
1736
Level-4 25500 6120 4080 2040
Level-5 29200 7008 4672 2336
Level-6 35400 8496 5664 2832
Level-7 44900 10776 7184 3592
Level-8 47600 11424 7616 3808
Level-9 53100 12744 8496 4248
Level-10 56100 13464 8976 4488
Level-11 67700 16248 10832 5416
Level-12 78800 18912 12608 6304
Level-13 123100 29544 19696 9848
Level-13A 131100 31464 20976 10488
Level-14 144200 34608 23072 11536

Classification of Cities and Towns as per the percentage for the purpose of determining HRA

State / Union Territory Cities Classified as ‘X’ Cities Classified as ‘Y’
Andaman & Nicobar Islands – –
Andhra Pradesh
Telangana
Hyderabad (UA) Vijayawada (UA)
Warangal (UA)
Greater Visakhapatnam (M.Corpn.)
Guntur (UA)
Nellore (UA)
Arunachal Pradesh – –
Assam – Guwahati (UA)
Bihar – Patna (UA)
Chandigarh – Chandigarh (UA)
Chhattisgarh – Durg-Bhilai
Nagar (UA)
Raipur (UA)
Dadra & Nagar Haveli – –
Daman & Diu – –
Delhi Delhi(UA) –
Goa – –
Gujarat Ahmadabad (UA) Rajkot (UA)
Jamnagar (UA)
Bhavnagar (UA)
Vadodara (UA)
Surat (UA)
Haryana – Faridabad* (M.Corpn.)
Gurgaon* (UA)
Himachal Pradesh – –
Jammu & Kashmir – Srinagar (UA)
Jammu(UA)
Jharkhand – Jamshedpur (UA)
Dhanbad (UA)
Ranchi (UA)
Bokaro
Steel City (UA)
Karnataka Bengalore / Bengaluru (UA) Belgaum (UA)
Hubli-Dharwad (M.Corpn.)
Mangalore (UA)
Mysore (UA)
Gulbarga (UA)
Kerala – Kozhikoda (UA)
Kochi (UA)
Thiruvanathapuram (UA)
Thrissur (UA)
Malappuram (UA)
Kannur (UA)
Kollan (UA)
Lakshadweep – –
Madhya Pradesh – Gwalior (UA)
Indore (UA)
Bhopal (UA)
Jabalpur (UA)
Ujjain (M.Corpn.)
Maharashtra Greater Mumbai (UA),
Pune (UA)
Amravati (M.Corpn.)
Nagpur (UA)
Aurangabad (UA)
Nashik (UA)
Bhiwandi (UA)
Solapur (M.Corpn.)
Kolhapur (UA)
Vasai–Virar City (M.Corpn.)
Malegaon (UA)
Nanded-waghala (M.Corpn.)
Sangli (UA)
Manipur – –
Meghalaya – –
Mizoram – –
Nagaland – –
Odisha – Cuttack (UA)
Bhabaneswar (UA)
Raurkela (UA)
Puducherry (Pondicherry) – Puducherry / Pondicherry (UA)
Punjab – Amritsar (UA)
Jalandhar (UA)
Ludhiana (M.Coprn.)
Rajasthan – Bikaner (M.Corpn.)
Jaipur (M.Corpn.)
Jodhpur (UA)
Kota (M.Corpn.)
Ajmer (UA)
 Sikkim – –
Tamil Nadu Chennai (UA) Salem (UA)
Tiruppur (UA)
Coimbatore (UA)
Tiruchirappalli (UA)
Madurai (UA)
Erode (UA)
Tripura – –
Uttar Pradesh – Moradabad (M.Corpn.)
Meerut (UA)
Ghaziabad* (UA)
Aligarh (UA)
Agra (UA)
Bareilly (UA)
Lucknow (UA)
Kanpur (UA)
Allahabad (UA)
Gorakhpur (UA)
Varanasi (UA)
Saharanpur (M.Corpn.)
Nodia* (CT)
Firozabad (NPP)
Jhansi (UA)
Uttarakhand – Dehradun (UA)
West Bengal Kolkata (UA) Asansol (UA)
Siliguri(UA)
Durgapur (UA)

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  1. avindar ramavat says

    July 3, 2019 at 11:42 am

    Dear sir,

    Please clarify whether UA includes Hyderabad Municipal Development Authority (HMDA) and not only Municipal limits (GHMC) .?

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  2. ravindar ramavat says

    July 3, 2019 at 11:33 am

    Dear sir what is the mean of Hyderabad (UA) is only Greater Hyderabad municipal corporation or Hyderabad Urban Area please clarify it.

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