ISLAMABAD: The government has given adhoc relief of 10 percent in salaries of government employees besides merging two adhoc reliefs of 10 percent each for the financial years 2013-14 and 2014-15 in basic pay and a 10 percent raise has been given in pensions of retired government employees, including both civil and military personnel.
In the federal budget for fiscal 2016-17, the government has merged two adhoc reliefs of 10 percent in basic salaries given by the PPP government in 2013 and 2014 respectively. The merger will raise the government employees’ allowances like house rent, conveyance and others.
The net pension to all pensioners of federal government has been increased by 10 percent and 25 percent in net pension to all pensioners of federal government above the age of 85 years with effect from July 1, 2016.
The minimum wage of labour has been increased from Rs13,000 to Rs14,000. The government has calculated that the additional financial impact of the proposed increase in pay, pensions and allowances is estimated at Rs57 billion per annum.
The relief measures for the government employees includes special area compensatory allowance at the uniform rate of Rs300 a month from Rs50- 210 for civil armed forces, posted in border areas; unattractive area/compensatory allowance for Chitral, Dir, Hazara Division, Swat and Malakand at par with rates allowed by the KP government.
Special conveyance allowance to disabled employees @ Rs1000 a month (on the proposal of leader of the opposition), integrated allowance allowed to quasid/naib quasid/daftries from Rs300 a month to Rs450 a month; revision of outfit allowance allowed to Pak Army officers on their secondment to civil armed forces and reversion to army from Rs800 to Rs2,500 and from Rs500 to Rs2,000, respectively.
Revision of late sitting conveyance charges by 50 percent to employees in BPS 1-15, washing allowance @ Rs100 and dress allowance @ Rs100 allowed to employees in BPS 1-4 from Rs100 to Rs150. M Phil allowance @25 percent of PhD allowance i.e. Rs2,500 a month to federal government employees on the pattern of government of Punjab, additional charge allowance/deputation allowance revision of ceiling from Rs6,000 to Rs12,000, current charge special pay - revision of ceiling from Rs6,00, increase in qualification pay @50 percent and inclusion of ACCA/CIMA, staff collage,/NMC/NDC, NIPA Adv courses/mid career etc, upgradation of LDC (BS-7 to BS-9), UDC (BS-9 to BS-11), assidtant (Bs-14 to Bs-16) and assistant-in-charge (BS-15 to BS-16).
Upgradation of posts of Khateebs (BS-12 to BS-15), Mozzins/Muddaris (BS-5 to BS-7) Khadim (BS-5 to BS-6) Auqaf Directorate, ICT, Risk Allowance/Special Risk Allowance to Federal Levi Force in Fata, Pata (KP) and Balochistan equal to one month initial basic pay of 2008 pay scale.
The relief for the pensioners and their families which was announced by the finance minister include 10 percent increase in net pension to all pensioners of federal government with effect from 1st July 2016, 25 percent increase in net pension to all pensioners of federal government above the age of 85 years with effect from 1st July 2016.
Revision of ex-gratia pension allowed to pensioners of former East Pakistan from Rs2,000 to Rs6,000 self pension and from Rs1,000 to Rs.4,500 a month family pension.
For pensioners scheme, and senior citizens’ and widows’ investment in Bahbood scheme of National Savings, the upper limit of investment is being increased from Rs4 million to Rs5 million.
