The Finance Division has once again submitted the eighth pay scale order for civil servants to the Law Ministry for vetting.
On October 26, Finance Minister AMA Muhith brought back the official order from the Law Ministry for reviewing.
The Implementation Wing of the Finance Ministry sent the 12-page order to the Law Ministry after incorporating a new provision that says public servants will get higher grades.
An official of the Implementation Wing said if there was no queries from the Law Ministry, then the eighth pay scale order would be passed in two days.
“We hope that the gazette notification for the eighth pay scale will be issued in first week of next month,” the official said.
According to the new structure, a 5% cumulative increment will replace the old time scale and selection grade systems. A civil servant will graduate to the next pay grades once after 11 years of service and then after 16 years.
The eighth pay scale for public servants got cabinet consent on September 6.
The new pay scale for 2.1 million civil servants will be retrospectively effective from July 1, 2015.
