The review committee report on the National Pay Commission’s recommendations is likely to be placed at a cabinet meeting to be held in the first week of July.
Finance Division will take directives from finance minister before placing the new pay scale proposals to the cabinet, said officials.
Finance Minister AMA Muhith will give his written advice to prepare the proposals for the cabinet meeting expected to be chaired by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, said sources in the implementation wing under finance ministry.
Finance minister will advise the authorities concerned about pending issues like much-talked-about timescale and selection grade for the government staffs. The proposals will be placed before the cabinet to get its consent, especially that of prime minister.
Earlier, the National Pay Commission dropped two important issues – timescale and selection grade used for enhancing staff salaries- because of involvement of corruption and legal complexities with them.
Under the timescale and selection grade process, the government staff salaries are increased despite their promotion.
AMA Muhith has promised to give bigger salary cheques to public servants from July 1 this year.
But officials said it is likely to be delayed by one or two months as finance minister didn’t go into details about the new pay scale implementation in his budget speech.
Expressing frustration over the issue, they said the National Pay Commission’s recommendations might not be implemented on time. “We will place the review committee proposals to cabinet meeting after prime minister returns home. But I can not make it sure when it will be placed,” said senior finance secretary Mahbub Ahmed.
In the budget announcement for the next fiscal year, the government has allocated an additional sum of Tk26,643 crore for payment of the first phase of the new pay scale salaries.
