ISLAMABAD: The employees of Stated Owned Enterprises (SOEs) and autonomous organisations, which function under the government, will face up to 30 per cent cut in their salaries as per the austerity drive and to provide relief to masses.
A meeting chaired by the prime minister here decided that salaries of employees of SOEs and autonomous organisations would be cut from 5 to 30pc, according to their grades and the saving would be spent to provide relief to common man.
The meeting discussed impacts of increase in oil prices in the international market and implementation of government’s austerity measures.
The meeting decided that funds generated from government austerity measures will be used for public relief. The meeting also decided that government representatives in the boards of corporations and other departments will not take a fee to participate in the board meeting and this fee will be included in the savings.
The meeting decided that the four-day working per week will not be applicable to law enforcement agencies and FBR, and they will perform their duties as per the past routine.
It was decided that a third-party audit will be conducted on 50 per cent reduction in fuel allocation for official vehicles and grounding of 60pc of government vehicles over the next two months.
During the meeting, a briefing was given on the implementation of government’s complete ban on the purchase of new vehicles and other government purchases. The meeting also decided that there would be third-party audit of all the austerity measures while weekly implementation reports would be sent to the PM as a part of monitoring mechanism.
All foreign missions of Pakistan have also been directed to celebrate the Pakistan Day on March 23 in a simple way.
