Revision of Pay Scale 2016 dt 18.07.2016

OFFICE MEMORANDUM

Subject: Revision of Pay Scale 2016

I am directed to state that the Governor of the Punjab has been pleased to sanction Revision of Basic Pay Scales & Allowances with effect from 1st July, 2016 for the Civil Servants of the Punjab Government as detailed in the succeeding paragraphs:

PART-I (PAY)

2. Revision of Basic Pay Scales:

The Basic Pay Scales – 2016 shall replace the Basic Pay Scales – 2015 with effect from 01.07.2016 as contained in the Annexure to this Notification.

3. Fixation of Pay of the Existing Employees:

i) The basic pay of an employee who was in service on 30.06.2016 shall be fixed in the Basic Pay Scales – 2016 on point to point basis, i.e., at the stage corresponding to that occupied by him/her above the minimum of Basic Pay Scales – 2015.

ii) In case of Personal Pay being drawn by an employee as part of his/her basic pay beyond the maximum of his/her pay scale on 30.06.2016, he/she shall continue to draw such pay in the Basic Pay Scales – 2016 at the revised rates.

4. Fixation of Pay on Promotion:

In cases of promotion from a lower to higher posts/scale before introduction of these scales, the pay of the employees concerned in the revised pay scale may be fixed and so enhanced that it would not be less than the pay that would have been admissible to him if his promotion to the higher post/scale had taken place after the introduction of these scales.

Annual Increment:

Annual increment shall continue to be admissible, subject to the existing conditions, on 1st of December each year. However, the first annual increment of existing employees in Basic Pay Scales – 2016, in which their pay is fixed as on 01.07.2016, shall accrue on the 1st of December, 2016.

PART-II (ALLOWANCES)

6. Ad-hoc Relief Allowances:

The following Ad-hoc Relief Allowances granted w.e.f. 01.07.2013, 01.07.2014 and 01.07.2015 shall cease to exist with effect from 01.07.2016:

7. Ad-hoc Allowance – 2010 (if admissible):

i) The Ad-hoc Allowance – 2010 @ 50% of the basic pay of Basic Pay Scales – 2008 (where admissible to the civil employees) shall continue to stand frozen at the level of its admissibility/drawn as on 30.06.2016;

ii) All the new entrants shall be allowed Ad-hoc Allowance – 2010 @ 50% of the minimum of relevant Basic Pay Scales – 2008 (if admissible in that organization) on notional basis with effect from 01.07.2016, till further orders, and shall stand frozen at the same level;

8. Ad-hoc Relief Allowance – 2016:

i) An Ad-hoc Relief Allowance – 2016 @ 10% of the running basic pay of BPS – 2016 to the civil servants of the Punjab Government including contract employees employed against civil posts in Basic Pay Scales on standard terms and conditions of contract appointment shall be allowed with effect from 01.07.2016 till further orders. This Allowance will not be admissible to contract employees appointed on fixed pay package.

ii) The Ad-hoc Relief Allowance will be subject to Income Tax.

iii) The Ad-hoc Relief Allowance will be admissible during leave and entire period of LPR except during extra ordinary leave.

iv) The Ad-hoc Relief Allowance will not be treated as part of emoluments for the purpose of calculation of Pension/Gratuity and recovery of House Rent.

v) The Ad-hoc Relief Allowance will not be admissible to the employees during the tenure of their posting/deputation abroad.

vi) The Ad-hoc Relief Allowance will be admissible to the employees on their repatriation from posting/deputation abroad at the rate and amount which would have been admissible to them had they not been posted abroad.

vii) The Ad-hoc Relief Allowance will be admissible during the period of suspension.

viii) The term “Basic Pay” for the purpose of Ad-hoc Relief Allowance – 2016 will also include the amount of the personal pay granted on account of annual increment(s) beyond the maximum of the existing pay scales.

9. Qualification Pay:

The rates of Qualification Pays shall be revised as under:

(*Note: CIMA and ACCA qualified employees may henceforth be allowed Qualification Pay at the same rate as admissible for ICMA/ICWA.)

10. Deputation/Additional Charge Allowance:

11. Special Pays and Allowances:

All the Special Pays, Special Allowances or the Allowances admissible as percentage of pay (excluding those which are capped by fixing maximum limit) including House Rent Allowance and the Allowances/Special Allowances equal to initial or basic pay granted to any employee of Punjab Government including Punjab Police, Border Military Police, D.G. Khan & Rajanpur, Baluch Levy D.G. Khan, Prisons, Directorate of Reclamation & Probation, Judiciary, MPDD, teaching/non-teaching staff of teaching institutes including employees of Directorate of Special Education and employees of other Departments shall stand frozen at the level of its admissibility as on 30.06.2016.

12. Option:

i) All the existing Civil Servants (BS-1 to 22) of the Punjab Government shall, within 30 days from the date of issue of this notification, exercise an option in writing and communicate it to the Accountant General Punjab/District Accounts Office/DDO concerned, as the case may be, either to continue to draw salary in the Basic Pay Scales-2015 or in the Basic Pay Scales – 2016 as specified in this Notification. Option once exercised shall be considered final.

ii) An existing employee, as aforesaid, who does not exercise and communicate such an option within the specified time limit, shall be deemed to have opted for the Basic Pay Scales – 2016.

13. All the existing rules/orders on the subject shall be considered to have been modified to the extent indicated above. All the existing rules/orders not so modified shall continue to be in force under this scheme.

14. Anomalies:

An Anomaly Committee shall be set up in the Finance Department (Regulations Wing) to resolve the anomalies, if any, arising in the implementation of the Basic Pay Scales – 2016.

Annexure to Notification No.FD.PC.2-1/2016

dated Lahore, the 18th July, 2016

BASIC PAY SCALES OF THE CIVIL SERVANTS