Senior secretary Mokhlesur Rahman of the Ministry of Public Administration on Sunday said that the interim government would announce dearness allowance for all its employees soon.
Taking to reporters at the secretariat, he said that the amount of dearness allowance would be determined after two or three meetings.
Mokhlesur Rahman is a member of the seven-member committee formed in the past week by the finance division to give suggestions regarding the applicability and availability of dearness allowance.
He said that the first meeting of the committee would be held next week.
In 2015, the government introduced the latest pay scale for government employees, almost doubling their salaries. The employees also receive a 5 per cent increment of their basic salary every year.
The recently released 鈥榃hite Paper on the state of Bangladesh economy鈥� said that the pay hike in 2015 was intended to appease the bureaucracy that aided the government in rigging the 2014 election by the ousted Awami League.
Given the low revenue incomes, the ousted government relied heavily on borrowing to meet the growing expense of park and package resulting in ballooning debt.
Answering to a question on the promotion of some 764 officials, Mokhlesur Rahman said that his ministry was yet to receive any recommendations from the chief advisers鈥� office.
He said that they might be compensated financially since they were deprived of promotion in the past years of the AL regime.
Earlier, a group of retired officials who were reportedly deprived of promotion and service benefits during the AL regime staged a sit-in at the secretariat to press home their demands, according to private news agency, United News of Bangladesh.聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽
Around 50 to 60 deprived officials gathered in front of the office of the senior secretary of the Ministry of Public Administration at about 10:30am.