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Rise in Salaries of State Employees
By KTM Metro Reporter in Kathmandu
The Cabinet meeting held in the evening of July 19, 2009 has decided to increase the salaries of the state employees such as civil administration staff, teachers, police and army by 4 to 6 percent, and add allowance of Rs 1,200 to the salaries of all staffs as a dearness allowance. The civil administration staffs have been protesting the government for not increasing the salaries of the state employees, and have put on hold all sorts of administrative work throughout the country for a week.
In the budget for the fiscal year 2009 delivered on July 13, 2009, the Finance Minister has earmarked a sum of money for dearness allowances to the state employees. However, the state employees have not been happy with the allowances so they have launched a movement for rise in their salaries.
Dearness allowance together with the rise in the salaries of all the state employees will make the additional financial burden of Rs 12.30 billions on the government in the fiscal year 2009.
Previously, the market prices of daily necessities shot up immediately after the Finance Minister declares the rise in the salaries of the state employees. This year, the market does not need to respond to the rise in the salaries of state staffs as these prices have passed through the roof due to the current government’s inept at controlling the traffic anarchy, transporters’ anarchy and the anarchy in general prevailing in Nepal.
