Six-Member High-Level Committee Formed to Review Government Employees' Pay Structure, Amir Khosru Convenor

The government has formed a six-member high-level committee to reassess the pay structure and various benefits of government employees. Finance and Planning Minister Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury has been made convenor of the committee. The home minister, four other ministers and one state minister have been kept as members.

The Cabinet Division issued a notification in this regard on Thursday (November 5). A government gazette was also published alongside it.

The other members of the committee are Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed, Law Minister Md Asaduzzaman, Education Minister A N M Ehsanul Haque Milan, Health and Family Welfare Minister Sardar Md Sakhawat Hossain (Bakul) and State Minister for Public Administration and Food Md Abdul Bari.

According to the notification, the committee will review the existing inconsistencies in the current pay scale for government employees and the complaints raised over them. It will submit the necessary recommendations to the government to resolve these problems.

The committee will also review the upgradation and downgradation of pay grades and bringing consistency among the different grades. The possibility of introducing a risk allowance and other new allowances for government employees will also be examined.

Alongside that, the committee will review whether the amounts of the various allowances currently in force need to be increased or decreased, and will give its recommendations.

The Cabinet Secretary, the Prime Minister's Principal Secretary or Secretary, the Public Administration Secretary and the Finance Division Secretary, along with the secretaries of the ministries and divisions concerned, will assist the committee in its work. The committee may include new members if necessary.