Good news! Post office employees to get 60 days’ salary as Diwali bonus
The Department of Posts have announced the Diwali bonus for its employees and these people are eligible. Check details here.
Ahead of Diwali, the Department of Posts under the Ministry of Communications approved Productivity Linked Bonus for the the year 2024-25.
The diwali bonus will be paid to the eligible Post Office employees which will be equivalent to 60 days of their emoluments.
The MTS/Group ‘C’ and non-gazetted Group ‘B’, Ex-gratia payment of bonus to regularly engaged Gramin Dak Sevaks (GDS),ad-hoc and full time casual labourers are entitled to the 60 days emoluments.
Regular employees :
The productivity Linked bonus will be calculated as per the following formula:
Bonus = Average emoluments X Number of days of bonus/ 30.4 (average no. of days in a month)
Those employees who have resigned/retired or left services or proceeded on deputation within the Department of Posts or those who have proceeded on deputation outside the Department of Posts after 31.03.2025 will also be entitled to bonus.
For Gramin Dak Sevaks (GDS)
Average Monthly Time Related Continuity Allowance will be calculated taking into account the Time Related Continuity Allowance (TRCA) plus corresponding Dearness Allowance drawn by them for the period from 1.4.2024 to 31.3.2025 divided by 12.
Average TRCA X Number of days of bonus / 30.4 (average no. of days in a month).
Full time casual labourers:
Full Time Casual Laborers (including Temporary Status Casual Laborers who have worked for 8 hours a day, for at least 240 days in a year for three consecutive years or more as on 31.03.2025 will be paid ad-hoc bonus on notional monthly wages of Rs.1200/- (Rupees Twelve hundred only). The maximum ad-hoc bonus will be calculated as below:
(Notional monthly wages of Rs.1200) X (Number of days of bonus)/ 30.4 (average no. of days in a month)
