Government employees on Saturday rejected an ad hoc relief of 20 percent in their basic pays, describing the move too meagre. Khalid Mehmood Sanghera, the Divisional President of All-Pakistan Clerks Association, said that the government had promised to increase their grades /Salaries by 50 percent, besides increasing house rent, conveyance allowance and medical allowance by at least 30 percent.
He said that 2.2 million employees from BPS-one to BPS-15 would observe strike and stage protest demonstrations across the country if the government did not review its decision. However, industrial workers appreciated the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP)-led coalition government for giving a substantial increase in their pensions under the old-age benefit scheme and the increase in minimum wages of the employees.
In the meanwhile, the protest of para-medical staff entered 24th day on Saturday. They are protesting against non-existence of their service structure. One of the protestors fell unconscious at the Nishtar Hospital due to sizzling heat. Malik Bashir Khan, a federal government employee and leader of a railways union, said that the government in its tenure had increased the salaries of public sector employees by more than 100 percent, which was unprecedented in the country's history.
President of the Railway Pensioners' Welfare Association Abdur Razaq Riaz, who is leading a retirement life, said he was happy to get significant annual increases in his pension for the past five years. He said that his pension had almost doubled against what he was drawing in 2007. however, he said that there should be an effective mechanism to maintain prices of daily use items.
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