PSU IDA Rates from 01.04.2025 for 2007 Pay Scales

Find the PSU IDA rates of old and new expecting Industrial Dearness Allowance from April 2025 (01.04.2025) applicable for 2nd PRC like BSNL working employees & Pensioners of PSUs under GOI, Check the IDA calculation formula based on Central Price Index number…

IDA from April 2025 or Industrial Dearness Allowance is a type of allowance given to employees of Public Sector Enterprises (PSEs) under the Government of India, as well as for the Pensioners as per the price index number declare by the Labor Bureau of India.

However, IDA is not a compulsory allowance when it comes to private sector employees, and this means the private sector companies not forced to give their employees this kind of allowance.

Also, IDA rates get modifies quite frequently, because of the inflation rate on a quarterly basis to decrease the burden of inflation, where in addition to that, the government came up with different allowance plans for the employees, along with extra benefits.

So the employees can cope up with the situation, One of the main reasons why CPI notices a rapid rise is because of the frequent changes in the IDA rates, Moreover, you should know that Industrial Dearness Allowance rates modified on the basis of the previous 3 months AICPIN or All India Consumer Price Index Number.

Expected IDA from April 2025 for 2017 PRC Employee

PSU IDA Rates Table for 2007 PRC Employees

After confirming the latest AICPIN by labour bureau, any PSU released the enhanced IDA rates order to their units for implementation of new IDA at new rates from the corresponding month.

How to Calculate IDA (Industrial Dearness Allowance) for 2nd PRC

Calculation of PSU IDA rates is not really a tough job to do, and you should know that IDA rate revision is based on the All India Consumer Price Index Numbers.

Usually after second pay revision with effect from 01.01.2007, the base index has also been revised to 01.01.2007, which is 126.33, so to know the IDA increase rate, we will need to figure out the All India Consumer Price Index for Industrial Workers [CPI(IW)] for the previous three months.

Also, for the IDA revision w.e.f. 1st January, the CPI numbers of September, October and November may require, and from 01/04, December, January, February CPI numbers, where as 1st July of a year, the CPI of March, April, and May, whereas for IDA revision from 1st October, CPI of June, July and August required, and so on.

Once you have the average CPI of the last three months, you will need to use this below formula to calculate Industrial DA rates for PSU, and this formula is:

IDA Calculation Formula for 2007 PRC employee

• New IDA rate = (Average CPI – Base Index) * 100
• Base Index = 126.33
• Increase in IDA rate = New IDA rate – Old IDA rate
  • For Example: If CPI for Jun 2023 – 136.4, July 2023 – 139.7 & August 2023 – 139.2, then find the average CPI for 3 months, then the calculation of New IDA is = [(Average CPI – 126.33) / 126.33] * 100.