Employers in the public sector pay salaries to their employees which is divided into various components. One of these components is the Dearness Allowance. Introduced in the World War II, Dearness Allowance or DA was initially known as ‘Dear Food Allowance’. In the initial years, Dearness Allowance was provided to employees by the government as a demand for wage revision was raised. However, later it was linked to the Consumer Price Index. There have been attempts to revise and restructure the percentage of Dearness Allowance by a number of committees in the Central Government.