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Schedule of Wage Rates – AG dt 24.12.2024OFFICE MEMORANDUMSubject: Schedule of Wage RatesPlease refer to your letter bearing No.DAO/JNG/Payroll-1/CD-137 dated: 30.11.2024 on the subject cited above.

Payment of Electricity Dues Policy dt 18.08.2012OFFICE MEMORANDUMSubject: Electricity Dues PolicyI am directed to refer to the subject noted above and state that the issue of outstanding electricity dues of departments, attached departments, autonomous bodies, and local governments of the Punjab Government was reviewed in a meeting with the Federal Adjuster, Finance Division, Government of Pakistan on 08.08.2012.It was observed that some agencies are not making timely payment of their electricity dues. It was agreed in the meeting that the Provincial Government will make every possible effort to ensure timely payment of current, undisputed electricity dues by all its entities.…

Judicial and Utility Allowance to Anti Terrorist Court and Other Courts Staff dt 07.01.2025OFFICE MEMORANDUMSubject: Judicial and Utility AllowanceWith reference to your letter No.DAO/BWP/119 dated 11.10.2024 on subject cited above.I am directed to refer to your letter No. KMP&R/2-3A(iv)/161/2021-24/4734, dated 28.10.2024 on the subject cited above.Moreover, the instant matter is subjudice before the August Supreme Court of Pakistan vide C.P. No. 1462/2019 etc., in which the impugned judgment has already been suspended vide order dated 29.06.2017 passed by the Supreme Court of Pakistan in C.P. No. 1252-L/2017 (copy enclosed). Therefore, those Consumer Courts which are in the receipt of judicial/utility…

Eligibility of Multiple Pension – Federal 01.01.2025OFFICE MEMORANDUMSubject: Multiple Pension Please find enclosed herewith CGA letter No. 386/CGA/Admn-II/Coord/1(46)/2023 dated 13.01.2025 and Government of Pakistan, Finance Division (Regulations Wing) OM No. F.9(3)R-6/2024-402 dated 01.01.2025 on the subject cited above for information and strict compliance.The undersigned is directed to enclose herewith a copy of the Office Memorandum of Finance Division (Regulation Wing) No. F.9(3)R-6/2024-402 dated 01.01.2025 on the subject cited above for information and strict compliance, please.The undersigned is directed to refer to the subject noted above and to state that, on the recommendations of Pay and Pension Commission-2020, it has been…

Clarification – Voluntary Retirement Penalties and Family Pension – Federal dt 03.01.2025OFFICE MEMORANDUMSubject: Family Pension The undersigned is directed to refer Finance Division’s O.M. No. F. 9(3)R-6/2024-264 dated: on the above subject(s) and it is inform that different organizations/departments have raised number of queries for necessary clarification. The responses to those queries are provided at attached Annex-‘I’ and Annex-‘II’ for your information and necessary implementation, please.Sr. No.QUESTIONSClarification of Finance Divisiona)i. The terms Special Family Pension need to be defined.ii. What is the eligibility criterion for Special Family Pension.The Special Family Pension as used in Finance Division O.M. dated 10.09.2024 is…

Clarification – Pension Amendment Notification 02.12.2024 dt 06.01.2025OFFICE MEMORANDUMSubject: Pension Amendment NotificationKindly refer to your letter bearing No.SO(TR-II)2-85/2023/PRTC, dated 23-12-2024 on the subject noted above.Sr.#Query of Administrative DepartmentReply of the Finance Departmenti.The Punjab Road Transport Corporation got defunct in 1997 and its employees were given Golden Hand Shake Scheme. The PRTC (defunct) had adopted the Punjab Civil Services Pension Rules, 1963 for disbursement of pension to its employees. The query crops up whether the Notification dated 02.12.2024 is applicable to the employees of the Punjab Road Transport Corporation or not?Since, defunct Punjab Road Transport Corporation (PRTC) had adopted the Punjab…

Clarification – Calculation of Pension and Future Increase in Pension – Federal 04.03.2025OFFICE MEMORANDUMSubject: Calculation of Pension The undersigned is directed to refer to Finance Division’s O.Ms. No. F.9(3)R-6/2024-401 to 403 dated: 01.01.2025 on the above subject(s) and to state that various queries have been raised from different quarters for necessary clarification. The responses to those queries are provided at attached Annex-‘I’, Annex- ‘Il’ and Annex-‘III’ for information and necessary implementation of all, please.CALCULATION OF EMOLUMENTS FOR THE PURPOSE OF PENSIONS. No.QueryClarification1.i) Whether benefit of usual/notional increment on completion of six months service in the year of retirement/death shall be…

Clarification – Prison Security Allowance and Prison Allowance to the Doctors dt 06.01.2025OFFICE MEMORANDUMSubject: Prison Security AllowanceI am directed to refer to your letter No.215/PR-C/Prison-allowance/2024- 25/2463 dated 22.10.2024 on the subject and to intimate that Prison Security Allowance and Prison Allowance are only admissible to the officers/ officials of Prison Department in light of Finance Department’s Notifications dated 22.11.2021 & 20.07.2022 (copies enclosed). and the same are not admissible to the Doctors of Health Department posted in High Security Prison Central Jail as they are not borne on the cadre strength of the Prison Department.2. I am further directed to…

Clarification – Entitlement of BS17 to Assistant Librarian and other Library Related Posts dt 19.02.2025OFFICE MEMORANDUMSubject: Assistant Librarian and other Library Related PostsI am directed to refer to the subject cited above and to state that a question has arisen as to whether the incumbents holding library related posts with different nomenclature, i.e., Librarian, Assistant Librarian and Cataloguer, etc. are entitled to grant of BS-17 on acquiring / possessing degree of Masters in Library Science or equivalent qualifications under the amendment in the Pay Revision Rules, 1977 notified vide Notification No.FD.PC.1-1/77(Pt-V)(Vol-III) dated 29.08.2024 read with clarification bearing No.FD.PC.1- 1/77(2022) dated…

Amendment – Delegation of Financial Power – Powers to Reappropriate Funds dt 24.01.2025OFFICE MEMORANDUMSubject: Delegation of Financial Power No. FD (FR) II-2/89. In exercise of the powers conferred under Section 48 of The Punjab Public Financial Management Act, 2022 (XXXVII of 2022), Governor of the Punjab is pleased to make the following amendment in the Punjab Delegation of Financial Powers Rules, 2016, Second Schedule, Part-I, Sr. No.10: -Sr. #Nature of powerTo whom delegatedExisting ExtentAmended Extent10.Re-appropriation of funds.(i) Administrative Department.Full powers.(i) Full powers for current expenditure (ii) Full Powers for Works & Development schemes.(ii) Officers in Category-I.Full powers.(i) Full powers for…