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Consider a special increase in salaries of federal secretariat employees. So, Ansar Abbasi has reported about a monthly basic pay increase.

ISLAMABAD: The federal government is considering a proposal to increase the salaries of secretariat employees. According to bureaucratic sources, the proposed increase would be equivalent to a base salary. So, that would apply to federal Ministries and Division employees from grade 1 to grade 22.

However, If the aforementioned increases in salaries had been approved. If implemented, the salaries for federal secretariat employees would increase by about Rs. 4 billion. But as happened in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the discrimination would increase as the bureaucracy dominates. Who is being rewarded with successive pay increases?

In Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, salaries for selected classes of employees from Grade 17 to Grade 22 increased by 150 percent. So, at the federal secretariat level, the suggestion has been given. if the salaries of seniors are being raised. Then employees of grades 1 through 16 should not be ignored.

The campaign for a special increase in salaries for federal secretariat employees only. Therefore, this became extraordinary packages of compensation. This is only for selected employees of the Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa governments.

Besides, the Salary and concession packages in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. These are far more attractive than the Federal Secretariat.

This strange deterioration resulted from a 150% increase in salaries of a select few sections of the bureaucracy in the name of executive allowance in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

In Punjab, the government of Chief Minister Usman Bazdar increased the basic salaries by 150% without referring to the provincial assembly.

This magnificent addition relates to approximately 1,700 designated positions in the name of the Executive Allowance. The majority of the beneficiaries belong to the former DMG (current Pakistan Administrative Service) and former PCS (current Provincial Management Service).

In other words, the notification for approval of this amazing increase has issued a few weeks after the approval of the provincial budget from the Punjab Assembly. So, the positions that have been designated as Executive Alliance include Provincial, Additional Chief Secretaries, Members Revenue Board, Additional Secretaries, Section Officers, Commissioners, Deputy Commissioners, Assistant Commissioners, Revenue Officers, and Special Judicial Magistrates, with grades below 17. Was not increased.

Above all, the KP government last year increased salaries by 150% in the name of executive allowances. PAS and PCS employees benefiting from this stand that government employees in the Supreme Court, the High Courts, the FBR, the FIA ​​, and the police, etc., were taking more pay but did not object. Went. Special groups of government employees have awarded special increases in salaries by issuing administrative orders. Which has worsened the pay scale system. Which has introduced in 1973 through administrative reforms in the civil bureaucracy.

After the passage of this law, repeated interference by the executive gave rise to ridiculous immunity, as today the Grade 22 officer is getting less pay than the Grade 20 officer in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

However, according to a retired federal secretary, it has ridiculously distorted salaries and allowances since 1999. Under the current management, a deputy messenger in the Judicial Establishment is taking equal care of three to four monthly salaries.

At last, various sections of government employment began to increase salaries through administrative orders based on their influence and opportunity. According to sources, the salary system and infrastructure have scattered.

Monthly Basic Pay Increase 2019 for Federal Secretariat Employees