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ISLAMABAD: The government’s decision for providing 25 percent Disparity Reduction Allowance to public sector employees from grade 1 to 16 will cost the national exchequer to the tune of Rs30...
Top Story February 13, 2021 ISLAMABAD: The government’s decision for providing 25 percent Disparity Reduction Allowance to public sector employees from grade 1 to 16 will cost the national exchequer to the tune of Rs30 billion on per annum basis. For the four months period with effect from March 1, 2021 to June 30, 2021, its cost to the national exchequer will be standing at Rs10 billion for the current fiscal year. It will be challenging for the government that how it is going to satisfy the IMF because the Fund had sternly opposed granting this raise on eve of the last budget for 2020-21...
25pc pay raise agreed after govt employees protest Top Story Ag APP ISLAMABAD: Government negotiators have announced that federal employees will be given “ad hoc relief” of 25 per cent, a day after a public sector workers’ protest in Islamabad over a pay raise sparked clashes with the police. In a press conference on Thursday, defence minister Pervez Khattak, flanked by interior minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed and parliamentary affairs minister Ali Muhammad Khan, said all federal employees would be given ad hoc relief of 25 per cent, while the “issues of upgradation (promotions)” will...
25pc raise in govt employees’ salaries Top Story February 12, 2021 ISLAMABAD: The government employees on Thursday called off their protest for raise in salaries after reaching an agreement with a special committee constituted by Prime Minister Imran Khan. The committee comprised Minister for Defence Pervez Khattak, Minister for Interior Sheikh Rashid Ahmed and Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Ali Muhammad Khan. As per the decision, a 25 percent increase in salaries of federal government employees from grades 1 to 19 was approved on ad-hoc basis. Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, Pervez K...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s budget deficit has risen to Rs1,137.925 billion, equivalent to 2.5 percent of the Gross Domestic Product , in the first half of the current fiscal year against 2.3...