The government mullets over creating new positions for top bureaucracy to increase the depth of the existing pay scales.

At a recent meeting, civil service reforms reviewed the idea of ​​introducing additional paychecks-BPS-23 and 24. It also discussed the proposals from bifureration ministries and benefits in accordance with workload, merger of quotas and exempt the quotas from taxes.

Committee members asked if the existing basic salary scales (BPS) should be preserved. In response, the additional secretary of the Financial Division said the opportunity was considered by a working group, but if BPS was dissolved, the variation in salary would be difficult to manage as it would require separate pay scales for various services that were not usable and feasible.

Committee chairman asked how things were managed before the introduction of the BPS system in 1973. The extra secretary assessed the meeting, which before the existing BPS scheme was managed according to classes and categories ranging from class-I (highly qualified) to class-IV (unskilled).

Planning, development and special initiatives that asked about the statement from the Pay and Pension Commission on the existing BPS system, as the additional financial secretary said the Commission had decided to retain the existing system.

The planning secretary approved the idea of ​​categorizing ministries and departments according to their job nature and workload and fixing their quotas accordingly.

The chairman commented that the extra pay scales for BPS-23 and 24 could only be considered for ministries and departments with technical nature work and relatively higher workload. When he gave his point of view, the extra financial secretary said the idea of ​​national executive service could serve the purpose.

In addition, the President emphasized that the existing “one-size-fits-all” method was no more useful and cited a case study of the Neelum-Jhelum watercraft project that sustained a huge loss due to the lack of specialized human resources.

He pointed out that in the federal government, six to seven very technical ministries and departments such as power and energy required specialized human resources to improve their performance, and these ministries should be incentives to attract specialized talent.

Joint Secretary of the Economic Affairs Division revealed in its presentation that following the above proposals in the initial sessions, additional meetings were held in the working group, where the agreed an analysis of federal benefits compared to provincial benefits, a regional comparison and sought proposals for the delivery of a house on retirement or improvement in compensation and benefits.

Then he explained questions about potential goals and their influence was raised, and in response, the working group decided to focus on the branching of ministries and benefits according to the workload. The President added that in 2018 he had given the idea of ​​the performance bonus, which was shrunk by the subsequent government. He gave directives to share this report with members of the committee.

In addition, the committee discussed the issue of hiring accommodation to the federal government employees and agreed that the system should be reviewed per year. Modern needs.

Most of the members favored the revenue generation of the hiring facility. However, the extra financial secretary was of the opinion that income generation would have an impact of approx. RS24 billion annually on the federal government.

Secretary of the Federal Public Service Commission (FPSC) emphasized that the earnings of the hiring facility could establish a kind of compensation parity towards the provinces, and if the decision was made, the staff who were otherwise engaged in the process could be significantly reduced, resulting in savings for the government.

The President expressed the view that the overall influence of income generation may be less than RS24 billion. The extra financial secretary did not agree, arguing that the impact could be greater than RS24 billion, as about 45% of employees who received rent allowance (which was very nominal) would also require income generation, which could increase the financial burden of the government.

The FPSC Secretary suggested that in the first phase may only be implemented to the employees of the federal secretariat or for the employees whose offices were in Islamabad. The chairman approved the idea of ​​starting the exercise from the Federal Secretariat.

The chairman concluded the meeting with comments that the respective working groups would consolidate and present final recommendations at the next meeting of the committee.