Replying to a question at his post-budget press conference, the adviser said
that the pay commission had been constituted to revise the compensation package
for public sector employees.
He said the new budget had announced an ad-hoc relief allowance of 15 per cent
of pay of serving government employees keeping in view the change in inflation
which, he said, had been targeted to be 9.5 per cent during the current fiscal
year.
Mr Tarin said that contractual and daily-wage employees of government
organisations and corporations would also get a raise.
He said the government had also increased the allowance of armed forces
personnel deployed on the western front equal to one month’s initial basic pay
with effect from July 1, 2009 and for the remaining personnel from January 1,
2010, in line with the presidential announcement.
In the interim period an adhoc relief allowance of 15 per cent of pay will be
allowed, which would be withdrawn from December 31, 2009. |
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