Government of Pakistan announced revision in basic pay scales and allowances of civil servants of the federal government along with 10pc ad-hoc relief allowance after merger of earlier ad-hoc allowances of 50pc and 10pc in the salaries.
The Basic Pay Scales-2017 would be effective from July 1, 2017, and replace BPS-2016. The notification said the basic pay of employees in service on June 30, 2017, would be fixed in the new scales on point to point basis i.e. at the stage corresponding to that occupied above the minimum of BPS-2016.
In cases of promotion from a lower to higher posts or scales before introduction of new scales, the pay of employees concerned in the revised scales would be fixed and so enhanced that it would not be less than the pay that would have been admissible to such personnel if promotion to higher post or scale had taken place after the introduction of new scales (BPS-2017).
After merger of 50pc ad-hoc allowance granted by the PPP government in 2011 and another 10pc ad-hoc allowance, the government has notified an ad-hoc relief allowance 2017 at the rate of 10pc of the running basic pay of BPS-2017 to the civil employees of the federal government as well as civilians paid out of defence estimates including contingent paid staff and contract employees.
As a result of revisions in pay scales, the maximum basic pay of all the government employees and officers would cumulatively increase by more than 20pc.
The government also increased the outstation rates of daily allowance (DA) from Rs310-500 per day to Rs496-800 for grade 1 to 4 employees. These rates for grade 5-11 were increased from Rs390-550 to Rs624-880. Likewise, the DA rates for grade 12-16 and up to grade 22 were also increased by 60pc with immediate effect.
Likewise, the government increased orderly allowance from Rs12,000 per month to Rs14,000 per month. It also increased the financial assistance of government servants from Rs5,000 to Rs15,000 for their burial at a local station, while the charges for wooden boxes of the dead bodies was raised from Rs1,600 to Rs4,800.