Government Employees Salary Increase with 15pc
disparity allowance – Important Announcement
Government Employees Salary Increase
with 15pc disparity allowance has been announced by Govt of Pakistan Finance
Division on 9 February 2022.
15pc Disparity Allowance for Govt
Employees is announced for employees on their running basic pay. This disparity
allowance is for employees of BPS-01 to BPS-19. All
Provincial govt will also add disparity allowance as federal govt on their behalf.
What is disparity
allowance?
Disparity
allowance is the salary increase for govt employees to fill the gap of ongoing
inflation and prices updates in daily use things. Govt employees demand this to
fulfill their daily life needs.
According to the Ministry of Finance, the Finance Division has
prepared a summary for the development of employees promptly under a time scale
plan.
The Ministry of Finance has said that a 15% allowance will be
given to the employees of scale 1 to 19 while the report of the Pay Commission
is awaited to include the allowance in the basic salary.
The
decision to integrate the ad hoc relief allowance into the basic salary will be
taken later.
Finance Division Government of Pakistan has announced a press
release on 09 February 2022.
The government has decided to give a 15 % disparity allowance on
running basic pay to less privileged employees from Bs 1 to 19.
The government has decided to give a 15 % disparity allowance on
running basic pay to less privileged employees from Bs 1 to 19 with effect from
1st March. The above package is also recommended to the provinces for adoption
from their funds.
Further, a summary for timescale promotion has been initiated by
Finance Division to mitigate the hardship being faced by employees stuck in the
same grade for a long time.
The matter of up-gradation of posts on the analogy of Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa will be decided based on the findings of the study being conducted
by MS Wing of Establishment Division by the end of April.
Further, the merger of Adhoc Relief /Allowances into pay will be
decided on the report of pay and pension commission and will be merged in basic
pay as per agreement.
Federal
Govt has also advised all Provincial Govt including Punjab, Sindh, KPK &
Balochistan to increase the salaries with a 15% allowance. Now all province
decides how they follow the federal govt.
For more details visit https://www.finance.gov.pk.