PESHAWAR – The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government in one of its most significantdecisions to-date has made provision of allowance to government employeesconditional with performance.
Minister for Finance Taimur Saleem Jhagra Wednesday said that in thisbudget, the provincial cabinet reduced its salaries to show commitment tochange, before asking others to sacrifice.
Similarly, the move to performance based pay would also start from top todown, starting with the senior most officials in government, he said addingthat the decision would hopefully be implemented from 1st January.
Taimur Saleem Jhagra said out of an annual salary bill of more than Rs 200billion, Rs 100 billion goes to various allowances and salary of top ups.In the last government an executive allowance for senior KP civil servantswas introduced at 150 percent of basic pay, something Punjab followed andnow under consideration by the federal government, he added.
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He said since the government and its employees are getting salaries by taxpayers’ money so they should have to ensure delivery of services tofacilitate the people of this province and country, he concluded.
