PM for paying 5% incentive to govt employees
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday instructed the Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal to take measures to consider paying 5% of the basic salary of government employees as a special incentive.
"I request the Finance Minister to consider paying 5% of the basic salary as a special salary of the government employees during this emergency. I hope the finance minister will accept this matter. We will give them 5% of the basic salary as a special incentive," she told the general discussion on the national budget for fiscal year 2023-24 in Parliament today.
In her speech, Sheikh Hasina elaborately highlighted the various steps taken by the government to control inflation and raised her government's development successes in different sectors, reports BSS.
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Sheikh Hasina expected the universal pension scheme can be introduced within the upcoming FY24.
