Budget Speech 2022-23 Pakistan and Salary Increase

According to Budget Speech 2022-23 Pakistan, the Finance Minister has announced many packages for the employees and pensioners. Before this, Federal Cabinet approved the Budget 2022-2023. The Information Minister told the main contents of the Budget 2022-23 Pakistan.  There was different news of salary increase in the budget on 10th June 2022. However, after the approval of the budget and the Budget Speech of Miftah Ismael, the following has been announced for the employees:

Increase in Salaries, Budget 2022-23 Pakistan and Govt Employees

I shall discuss here in detail the increase in salaries of Government employees in the Upcoming Budget 2022-23 Pakistan.  The tentative date of announcement of Fiscal Budget 2022-2023 by the Federal Government has already the Finance Division declared. However, we are waiting for the final date to submit the Budget to the National Assembly.

History of Pay Scales Revision in Pakistan

I shall here mention in detail the History of Pay Scales Revision in Pakistan. Various Governments in the history of Pakistan issued the Revised Pay Scales for the civil servants of Pakistan. The 1st Payscale revision took place in 1972 when Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was the president of Pakistan. The last time PMLN Government issued the revised pay scales in 2017 when Nawaz Sharif was the Prime Minister of Pakistan. Now is 2022 and after 2017, there was no Pay Scale Revision for 5 years. The history chart of pay scales is as under:

Increase in Pay & Allowances 2022 and Other Demands of the Employees

Nowadays the demand for an Increase in Pay & Allowances 2022 for the employees and many other demands such as up-gradation of various posts, reduction of disparity, the introduction of revised pay scales, merging of various allowances is the top trend. These demands are guanine keeping in view the current scenario. The employees and their unions are struggling hard to fulfill the promise of the Government with employees. The previous year on 10th February 2021, there was an agreement between the employees and the Government. In this agreement, there was agreed to revise the pay scales of the employees and also up-gradation of the various posts of the employees. The main purpose of the agreement was to reduce the disparity of various pay and allowances among various department s employees.