Punjab Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi has continued showering benefits on theprovincial bureaucracy from the national kitty.
In a recent move, he approved a summary to give 100 percent secretariatallowance to the civil secretariat officials of BS-1 to BS-22.
It would increase a burden of one billion rupees annually to the provincialexchequer.
Earlier, it was decided to grant a secretariat allowance equal to 50% onthe running basic pay scales 2017 to the employees of the Punjab CivilSecretariat of grade 01 to 22.
The Punjab Finance Department sent the summary to the Chief Minister ofPunjab which was immediately approved.
The increase in the salaries of the bureaucracy has been done in order toincrease the civil secretariat allowance.
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According to the sources, the senior officers will also take benefit fromthe allowance.
They said that a 50% increase in the allowance on the basic salary of theofficers in 2017 has been approved in principle. This allowance will beapplied only to the officers and employees of the Civil Secretariat andS&GAD.
Even before this, the salaries of the officers have been increased by 50%during the Buzdar regime. The officers posted in the departments outsidethe Secretariat are receiving only a 50 percent allowance.
