Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi has announced 15 percent dearness allowance for contract employees of all provincial departments from July on the pattern of regular employees to facilitate them.
The dearness allowance will be given to contract employees on their running basic salary, the Chief Minister said presiding over a high level meeting at Chief Minister's Secretariat, here on Wednesday.
Chief Secretary Punjab, Salman Siddique, Chairman Planning and Development, Suleman Ghani, Secretary Health, Javed Malik, Secretary Education, Akhlaq Gillani, Special Secretary Finance, Rao Iftikhar Ahmad, Secretary Regulation, Muhammad Ilyas, Special Secretary to Chief Minister, Yousaf Khokhar and other senior officers were present in the meeting.
The Chief Minister said this revolutionary decision would benefit doctors of teaching and general cadre, paramedical staff of health department besides teachers of education department and thousands of other contract employees of the provincial government. He said that government has provided substantial relief to government servants as well as people of all strata of the society in the recently announced budget.
He said the government is giving a subsidy of billions of rupees to stabilise the prices of essential items for the benefit of low-income people and a programme is also being initiated for the supply of daily use items to the people at concessionary rates. CM further said that comprehensive programmes are being implemented to provide residential facilities to low-income people and government servants.
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