The Department of Expenditure has recently published an order regarding re-classification of Mathura Vrindavan Municipal Corporation as ‘Y’ class city for the purpose of grant of House Rent Allowance. [Click to view the Finmin Order issued on 25.2.2020]
As per the Finance Ministry order issued on 25 February 2020, the Mathura-Vrindavan Municipal Corporation qualifies for classification as ‘Y’ class city/town for the purpose of grant of House Rent Allowance to the Central Government employees on the basis of the population figures of 2011 census. The revised rates will be effective from March 2020.
This orders will apply to all civilian employees of the Central Government. Separate orders will be issued by the Ministry of Defence and the Ministry of Railways to Armed Forces personnel and Railway employees respectively.
Also read: House Rent Allowance – Matrix for HRA to JCOs/OR
Classification of Cities in Uttar Pradesh
Already listed cities classified as Y
- 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)
7th Pay Commission House Rent Allowance
X Y Z Classification of Cities for HRA 2021 PDF
After implementation of 7th pay commission recommendations the House Rent Allownce (HRA) slab are slightly reduce from 10%, 20% and 30% to 8%, 16% and 24% from new revised basic salary.
And now, due to the hike of Deanress Allowance to 28%, the rates of HRA will be revised from the existing slab to 9%, 18% and 27% for X, Y, Z Class Cities classified for the purpose of HRA for Central Government employees with effect from July 2021.
X Class Cities for HRA
- Ahmedabad (UA)
- Bengaluru (UA)
- Chennai (UA)
- Delhi (UA)
- Mumbai (UA)
- Hyderabad (UA)
- Kolkata (UA)
- Pune (UA)
Y Class Cities for HRA
- Vijayawada (UA)
- Warangal (UA)
- Greater Visakhapatnam (M.Corpn)
- Guntur (UA)
- Nellore (UA)
- Guwahati (UA)
- Chandigarh (UA)
- S.A.S. Nagar
- Mohali
- Durg-Bhilai Nagar (UA)
- Raipur (UA)
- Rajkot (UA)
- Jamnagar (UA)
- Bhavnagar (UA)
- Vadodara (UA)
- Faridabad (M.Corpn)
- Gurgaon (UA)
- Srinagar (UA)
- Jammu(UA)
- Jamshedpur (UA)
- Dhanbad (UA)
- Ranchi (UA)
- Bokaro Steel City (UA)
- Belgaum (UA)
- Hubli-Dharwad (M.Corpn)
- Mangalore (UA)
- Mysore (UA)
- Gulbarga (UA)
- Thiruvananthapuram (UA)
- Thrissur(UA)
- Malappuram (UA)
- Kannur (UA)
- Kollam (UA)
- Gwalior (UA)
- Jabalpur (UA)
- Ujjain (M.Corpn)
- Amravati (M.Corpn)
- Aurangabad (UA)
- Nashik (UA)
- Bhopal (UA)
- Bhiwandi (UA)
- Solapur (M.Corpn)
- Kolhapur (UA)
- Vasai–Virar City (M.Corpn)
- Malegaon (UA)
- Nanded-Vaghela (M.Corpn)
- Sangli (UA)
- Cuttack (UA)
- Bhubaneswar (UA)
- Raurkela (UA)
- Puducherry / Pondicherry (UA)
- Amritsar (UA)
- Jalandhar (UA)L
- udhiana (M.Coprn.)
- Bikaner (M.Corpn)
- Jodhpur (UA)
- Kota (M.Corpn)
- Ajmer (UA)
- Salem (UA)
- Tiruppur (UA)
- Tiruchirappalli (UA)
- Madurai (UA)
- Erode (UA)
- Moradabad (M.Corpn)
- Meerut (UA)
- Aligarh (UA)
- Agra (UA)
- Bareilly (UA)
- Allahabad (UA)
- Gorakhpur (UA)
- Varanasi (UA)
- Saharanpur (M.Corpn)
- Nodia (CT)
- Firozabad (NPP)
- Jhansi (UA)
- Dehradun (UA)
- Asansol (UA)
- Siliguri(UA)
- Durgapur (UA)
Also Check: Central Government Pay Matrix Table 2022 PDF
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