Instead of time scale and selection grade, the new pay scale for public servants would introduce provisions for awarding a big one-time salary raise for veteran government officials, Finance Minister AMA Muhith has said.
“We will make some revisions to time scale and selection grade before implementing the new pay scale,” the minister told reporters after meeting with outgoing IMF Executive Director Dr Rakesh Mohan and UK State minister for International Development Desmond Swayne at his secretariat office.
“We will prepare a big hike of pay scale for the civil servants who have spent a lot of years in government services,” he said in response to concerns by civil servants who feared the exclusion of time scale and selection grade would deny them salary increases.
Muhith added that the new pay scale will be officially announced before he leaves for the USA in September.
“Implementation of the pay scale is big and has complex issues due to the pay scale SRO [statutory regulatory orders], but it will be completed before I leave Dhaka on September 22.”
However, the new pay scale would be placed before the cabinet this month, he added.
“We will send the summary of the new pay scale to the prime minister for revision, which will take one week before it can be placed before the cabinet for approval,” the minister said.