The pay commission review committee has refrained from giving any advice regarding separate pay scales for banking and education sectors, official sources said.
The final meeting of the committee was held on Thursday last week at the Cabinet Division’s office with Cabinet Secretary M Musharaff Hossain Bhuiyan in the chair.
However, the committee advised reducing the highest salary for public servants to Tk80,000 from the proposed Tk1 lakh and the lowest salary Tk8,250 from the proposed Tk8,200.
The review committee report will be placed at the regular cabinet meeting tomorrow.
Officials concerned said the committee wanted to reduce an average of 7% from the salaries recommended.
However, the committee has given its consent to the recommended basic salaries and an annual 5% increment, effective from the first day of next financial year.
An amount of Tk15,000 crore would be earmarked in the fiscal year to implement the pay commission’s recommendations, Finance Division sources said.
The meeting also decided that the PRL (post-retirement leave) system would continue, not the LPR (leave prior to retirement) system.
Meanwhile, Finance Division sources said the government wanted to introduce a separate pay scale for Bangladesh Bank and state-owned banks, but to stop other facilities including the low-interest loan.
As the central bank did not agree with the government’s decision, the process of separate pay scale for Bangladesh Bank and state banks was stopped despite Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s approval, said officials.
The 8th National Pay and Service Commission expressed strong reservation about the long-standing demand of separate pay scale for state-owned commercial banks because of their dismal performance along with huge yearly loss linked with a series of loan scams.