Officials to hold demo inside Secretariat next Wednesday demanding pay scale reforms

The officers and workers of Bangladesh Secretariat have announced a demonstration within the Secretariat next Wednesday (4 December) to press a 9-point demand, at the side of pay scale changes, elimination of inequalities and improved advantages.

The decision changed into as soon as announced this day (28 November) all the draw via a rally organised by the Secretariat Officers and Employees Joint Council led by its president Md Badiul Kabir.

Announcing a neatly-liked assembly next Wednesday, Kabir said, “We are protesting to form our calls for. We urge to enforce our calls for without prolong.”

The calls for consist of the formation of a National Pay Commission, cutting again the selection of pay grades from 20 to 10, imposing a 50 p.c dearness allowance sooner than rolling out the elephantine Pay Commission, upgrading the 20th-grade positions (place of job assistants) to the 17th grade and tenth grade to Ninth grade.

Their quite quite about a calls for are: restoring the time-scale and selection grade gadget for all grades, introducing a 100 p.c pension gratuity draw, exempting annual incomes up to Tk 5 lakh from tax, rising the retirement age from 59 to 62 and providing Secretariat workers allowances similar to these on the President’s Inform of job and rationing facilities a lot just like the defense ministry.

The rally also demanded the elimination of a joint secretary accused of delays and misconduct in addressing their grievances.

The council referred to as for the cancellation of discriminatory orders imposed all the draw via the previous regime and the implementation of seniority-based mostly entirely mostly promotions.

The match changed into as soon as attended by the council’s secretary neatly-liked Md Nizam Uddin Ahmed and presided over by Md Badiul Kabir.