Higher HRA For Some Towns And Cities

Higher HRA For Some Towns And Cities

Ministry of Finance, Government of India, vide its letter No. 2/5/2014-E.II [B] dated 21st July 2015, informed that the reclassification of Town/Cities based on Census 2011 have been carried out. The details of reclassification are as under:

[i] As per the reclassification, “PUNE” in Maharashtra State has been upgraded to MAJOR “A” area.

 [ii] Extension of HRA to
- Faridabad, Ghaziabad, Noida and ...Gurgaon at par with Delhi.
- Panchkula at par with Chandigarh

 [iii] Area I coverage to Jalandhar, Shillong, Goa and Port Blair.

 [iv] New Cities added to Area I

LIST OF ADDITION OF NEW CITIES/TOWNS TO AREA-1 AS PER
CENSUS 2011

1 ANDHRA
PRADESH/TELANGANA
Vijayawada (UA), Warangal(UA),
Guntur (UA) Nellore (UA)

 2 ASSAM Guwahati (UA)

 3 CHANDIGARH Chandigarh (UA)

 4 CHATTISGARH Durg – Bhilai Nagar (UA), Raipur(UA)

 5 GUJARAT Rajkot (UA), Jamnagar (UA),Bhavnagar (UA)

 6 JAMMU &KASHMIR Srinagar (UA), Jammu (UA)

 7 JHARKHAND Jamshedpur (UA), Dhanbad(UA), Ranchi (UA) Bokaro Steel City (UA)

 8 KARNATAKA Belgaum(UA), Hubli – Dharwad(M Corpn), Mangaloe (UA),
Mysore (UA), Gulbarga (UA)

 9 MADHYA PRADESH Gwalior (UA), Jabalpur (UA),Ujjain (M.corpn)

 10 MAHARASHTRA Amravati (M.corpn), Aurangabad(UA), Nashik (UA), Bhiwandi
(UA), Solapur (M.Corpn),Kolhapur (UA), Vasai- Virar City (M Corpn), Malegaon (UA)
Nanded- Waghala (M.Corpn) Sangli (UA)

 11 ODISHA Cuttack (UA), Bhubaneshwar (UA), Raurkela (UA)

 12 PUNJAB Amirtsar (UA), Jalandhar (UA),

 13 RAJASTHAN Bikaner (MCorpn), Jodhpur (UA), Kotal (M Corpn), Ajmer (UA)

 14 TAMIL NADU Salem (UA), Tirupur (UA), Erode (UA), Tiruchirapalli (UA)

 15 UTTARPRADESH Moradabad (M.Corpn), Meerut (UA), Aligarh (UA), Bareilly
(UA), Allahabad (UA), Gorakhpur (UA), Saharanpur (M. Corpn), Firozabad (NPP), Jhansi (UA)

 16 UTTARAKHAND Deharadun(UA)

 17 WEST BENGAL Asansol (UA), Siliguri(UA),Durgapur (UA)