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Amendment in Federal Employees Benevolent Fund & Group Insurance Rules-1972

Establish Division Federal Employees Benevolent & Group Insurance Funds has made amendment in Federal Employees Benevolent Fund & Group Insurance Rules-1972 vide Notification No. 18-22/Act-Amdt/Plan 2002 dated 23rd November 2012. The new rates will be admissible wef 01-09-2012.

The minimum rates of monthly Benevolent Grant has been raised to Rs.4000/- with the maximum of Rs.10,100/- PM as per the column 5 of Sixth Schedule. In the same way the rates of monthly subscription of Benevolent Fund have also been increased from 2% to 2.40% of the basic pay without maximum limit as per column 4 of Sixth Schedule.

Posted inEmployees Corner Pay and Allowances Provincial Govt Employees

Revised Notification of Conveyance Allowance Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Employees

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Finance Department has issued revised Notification No. FD/SO/SR-II)/8-52/2012 dated 20-12-2012 regarding Conveyance Allowance for the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Employees of BPS-01 to 15. The rates of Conveyance Allowance have been revised wef 01-09-2012. The CA for the employees of BPS-16 to 19 remains unchanged.

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Discussion on Medical Allowance for Employees of BPS-16 & Above

I am going to discuss with detail about the Medical Allowance for the employees of BPS-16 & Above. Various visitors of GLXSpace.com (Galaxy World) aroused a question that they have been upgraded/promoted from lower scales to BPS-16 and above but their Medical Allowance is the same as they were earlier availing. They asked why the Medical Allowance is not 15 % of their Basic Pay.

Posted inEmployees Corner Pay and Allowances Provincial Govt Employees

Notification Copy of PH.D/D.Sc & M.Phil Allowance Punjab Govt Employees

Punjab Govt has already issued a Notification No. FD.SR-I-9-36/2007 dated 21st June 2012 regarding enhanced rates of PH.D/D.Sc & M.Phil Allowance. PH.D/D.Sc rates have been increased from Rs.5, 000/- PM to Rs.10, 000/- PM vide this notification. This would also make entitlement of Special Allowance @ Rs.5, 000/- per month to M.Phil Degree holders on acquiring/possessing M.Phil Degree by APUG/EX-PCS/EX-PSS officers as per the letter No. FD.SR-I/10-6/85 dated 14-09-1991, as the Special Allowance rate is 50 % of the PH.D/D.Sc Allowance.

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Govt of Pakistan Reluctant to Introduce Unified Pay Scales

According to the Daily News dated 16-12-2012, Govt is reluctant to introduce Unified Pay Scales for the Govt Employees of Pakistan. The hopes of employees have been dashed to grounds as the Govt have not finalized their framework on Unified Pay Scales and not shown any willingness in this regard within this stipulated period and thus there seems nothing in connecting with UPS wef 01-01-2013.