Salaries of Federal Employees Increased after Protests

 

Defense Minister Pervez Khattak on 11 February 2020 said that 25 percent increment in the pay rates of federal government employees from grades 1 to 19 has been affirmed on an "impromptu" premise a day after the capital saw nerve gas shelling in the midst of fights by many government employees.

He was tending to a question and answer session in Islamabad with Interior Minister Sheik Rasheed Ahmed and Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Ali Muhammad Khan after the interior minister declared the previous evening that exchanges with fighting government employees had been effective.

Sheikh Rasheed said the government panel had chosen in the gathering to release all the captured people up until this point.

Explaining upon the execution of the specially appointed help in the present question and answer session, Pervez Khattak said it would be added to the compensation scales in the spending that will be declared in June.

Declaring different choices of the government board, the defense minister said it had chosen the cycle of up gradation for all government employees which would be completed after the spending declaration in June.

He further included that a choice advancing employees dependent on time-scale endorsement had additionally been taken. An arrangement would be made for it and a method would be set, as per Khattak, in light of the fact that "the person who works more earnestly ought to get more freedoms [than] the person who is languid [and doesn't work hard]". Usage of this choice would likewise occur after the new financial plan was declared, said Khattak.

Parvez Khattak additionally tended to the requests of provincial associations and said that the leader had taught that provincial governments be given headings so the issues of employees of provincial governments could likewise be tackled.

"We are regretful about what happened yesterday [and it] ought not have occurred. In some cases delays happen [and] it doesn't mean we are not working for you," said the defense minister. Ali Muhammad Khan likewise said he "appreciated" the dissent development and the leader additionally put stock in individuals' entitlement to dissent.

Khan additionally commended the job of the delegate magistrate, the staff of the interior service and the police in taking care of the dissent yet encouraged that measures be taken so the previous occasions are not rehashed.

Interior Minister Rasheed said exchanges were effective with the collaboration of employees from grades 1 to 19. "I'm appreciative to government employees and Defense Minister for the answer for this issue."

Federal employees had been whining since a year about the distinction in their fundamental pays, as indicated by the defense minister. He said the last estimations of the government board to determine the progressing contest demonstrated "on normal there was a distinction of 60pc [in pay] of federal employees."

Rasheed said the government would stay in contact with the employees and increments would be made in the compensations of government employees from grades 20 to 22 in the following financial plan. He explained, in any case, that the compensation increment was for federal employees and employees of the federal secretariat.

The minister said that all nonconformists who had been captured would be delivered and FIRs (first data reports) enlisted against them would be reclaimed.

Because of an inquiry concerning policemen themselves being influenced during the earlier day's poisonous gas shelling, he said the bureau would favor the arrival of assets so cash could be given to police to "gear that is hard to find".

Recently, in any event 350 individuals assembled at the Pakistan Secretariat to dissent while another 700 walked towards the National Press Club in the capital's Blue Area.

Nonetheless, they chose to cancel the dissent after the ministers' presser.

Clash between Police and Government Employees

A day sooner, Islamabad's Red Zone was giving the appearance of a fight zone as the federal government employees and security work force conflicted for the duration of the day in the vigorously watched zone.

The dissenters were requesting increment in their compensations as per the overall swelling.

Fighting under the umbrella of All Government Employees Grand Alliance, the local officials had declared a demonstration at Pak Secretariat till their pay rates were expanded.

On Wednesday morning, more than 2,000 employees of Pak Secretariat accumulated inside the premises to arrange a dissent and bolted the primary access to the secretariat, the organization's authorities said.

Government authorities from different departments likewise arrived at the Secretariat from Radio Pakistan and PTV traffic circles and accumulated external the secretariat, officials said, adding that police attempted to capture the nonconformists yet stayed fruitless.

At around 10am, the police began capturing the dissenters, and quickly thereafter turned to teargas shelling, they said, adding that the dissidents fought back and pelted the police with stones. The police additionally discharged elastic projectiles at the nonconformists on Constitution Avenue.

Many vehicles stayed stuck in kilometers-long lines and the Islamabad Traffic Police continued redirecting traffic on elective courses.

The police got more than 200 dissenters and confined them in Bhara Kahu, Secretariat, Kohsar, Aabpara and ladies police stations.