Saturday, June 20, 2009
ISLAMABAD: The government has decided to increase the salaries of government employees from grade one to 16 and pensions of retired servants by 20 per cent, federal minister for overseas Pakistanis Farooq Sattar said.
Mr Farooq who is a front line leader of Mutahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) revealed this after meeting Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani and advisor to Prime Minister Shaukat Tarin discuss the Finance Bill 2009-10.
‘On our request, the prime minister directed the concerned authorities to raise the government employees salaries from Grade one to Grade-16 by 20 per cent. Moreover, it was also decided that those government employees would also get 20 per cent raise in pensions who had retired before year 2000,’ he said.
Meanwhile a leader of Awami National Party (ANP) Haji Adeel presented a new formula to parliament, suggesting a 25 per cent raise in the salary of employees of grade one to five, and lowering salaries by one per cent from grade six to 22.
In the recently announced federal budget 2009-10, the government had announced a 15 per cent increase in both salaries of employees and pension of retired government servants.
However, generally the raise is considered insufficient in the wake of recent high inflation.
Flanked by MQM leader Syed Haider Abbas Rizvi, Farooq Sattar told the media that the prime minister was very candid in giving a sympathetic consideration to the MQM’s demands.
‘The PM also assured the delegation that the subsidy on electricity would not be withdrawn at once and rather it would be withdrawn gradually,’ the MQM leader said.
The minister said the prime minister also agreed to withdraw Rs20 paisa tax on Short Message Service (SMS) to give boost to the telecom industry.
(Dawn)
ISLAMABAD: The government has decided to increase the salaries of government employees from grade one to 16 and pensions of retired servants by 20 per cent, federal minister for overseas Pakistanis Farooq Sattar said.
Mr Farooq who is a front line leader of Mutahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) revealed this after meeting Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani and advisor to Prime Minister Shaukat Tarin discuss the Finance Bill 2009-10.
‘On our request, the prime minister directed the concerned authorities to raise the government employees salaries from Grade one to Grade-16 by 20 per cent. Moreover, it was also decided that those government employees would also get 20 per cent raise in pensions who had retired before year 2000,’ he said.
Meanwhile a leader of Awami National Party (ANP) Haji Adeel presented a new formula to parliament, suggesting a 25 per cent raise in the salary of employees of grade one to five, and lowering salaries by one per cent from grade six to 22.
In the recently announced federal budget 2009-10, the government had announced a 15 per cent increase in both salaries of employees and pension of retired government servants.
However, generally the raise is considered insufficient in the wake of recent high inflation.
Flanked by MQM leader Syed Haider Abbas Rizvi, Farooq Sattar told the media that the prime minister was very candid in giving a sympathetic consideration to the MQM’s demands.
‘The PM also assured the delegation that the subsidy on electricity would not be withdrawn at once and rather it would be withdrawn gradually,’ the MQM leader said.
The minister said the prime minister also agreed to withdraw Rs20 paisa tax on Short Message Service (SMS) to give boost to the telecom industry.
(Dawn)
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