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Govt employees’ pay revision to cost Tk 40cr more

By Shehab Ahmed and Inam Ahmed
The exchequer will bear at least He 40 crore more in addition to Tk 758 crore needed to implement the new pay scales for government employees and officials, adding the 12 per cent hike for those who were least benefited by the pay-hike, officials said.
A gazette notification was made in this regard on Sunday.
The government earlier allocated Tk 700 crore in the current financial year for payment of salaries of nearly 750.000 employees and officials under the new pay scales.
But the government had to
revise its decision in the wake of protests by certain categories of low paid employees, who complained that they were not much benefited by the new scales.
They postponed their agitation until November 30 after the government agreed to review their complaints.
Last week, the Cabinet decided to raise their salaries by 12 per cent. It said the hike would be applicable to those whose salaries did not rise by 12 per cent in the new pay scales.
The cabinet also decided that
the backlog of arrear salaries. effecUve from July 1. would be paid in cash not in bonds and certificates, as announced earlier.
An official order was issued on Sunday afternoon in this regard. It is likely to make it possible for the government employees to get their salaries on December 1.
Finance Ministry sources said that the addiUonal expenditure would be borne out of block allocation' of funds in the budget for different ministries. It will put pressure on the budget but the government, considering the disparity in salaries of different categories of employees and officials, decided to revise certain pay scales, one top official said.
Some categories of employees at the lower level to upto 40 per cent payhike. But in Class three category, certain sections of employees did not got any benefit from the new pay scales because of various complications. So the government decided to revise its earlier decision. the source said.
However, he made it clear that there would be no further revision.
The Secretariat employees will review the latest decision in a meeting of their leaders today. employee sources said.
Leaders of employees working outside the Secretariat have convened a rally at the Central Shahid Minar on November 25 demanding fixation of minimum basic salaiy at Tk 2500 instead of Tk 1500 in the new pay scales.