Finance Minister AMA Muhith has said they will reconsider the exclusion of time scale and selection grade before implementing the new pay structure for government employees.
The minister told this to reporters after a meeting with a delegation of BCS officers at the Planning Commission in Dhaka’s Sher-e-Bangla Nagar yesterday.
“I had a wrong idea about time scale and selection grade. Today, the concepts have become clear to me,” he said.
The government is implementing the new pay scale for government employees on the basis of and after reviewing the recommendations placed by the 8th National Pay and Services Commission (NPSC).
Among other things, the NPSC had recommended that the two provisions be scrapped because these had over the years bred corruption and discrimination.
Time scale and selection grade have been used to compensate those public servants who deserve promotions but have not got any due to shortage of posts.
Most public servants have strongly opposed the government move to drop these two provisions.
Muhith said two weeks ago that the new pay structure would be placed in a cabinet meeting in August and implemented thereafter.
The minister yesterday said that there is no reason for the government employees to be worried as the new structure would be implemented with retrospective effect. This means that alongside the hikes, they would get the arrears for July as well.
The pay commission recommended nearly doubling the salaries of public servants at all grades. The government has made some changes to the commission’s proposals after review.
