Government of Pakistan Finance Division (Regulations Wing) No.F.8(12)R-10/93-18 Islamabad, the 6" February, 2015 OFFICE MEMORANDUM Subject- _ ADMISSIBILITY OF NON-PRACTICING ALLOWANCE In pursuance of the recommendations of the Wafaqi Mohtasib (Ombudsman) contained in findings dated 08-01-2015 and this Division's O.M.No.F.1(1)-Imp/83, dated 18-08-1983 (copies enclosed), the undersigned is directed to clarify that Non-Practicing Allowance (NPA) is admissible to a person, who is appointed as Medical Officer for which prescribed qualification is MBBS or equivalent and whom private practice is not allowed the exigencies of service. (Dr. Muhamrhad Ismail Hasni) Section Officer (R-10) Tele: 9245725 All Ministries/Divisions Copy also forwarded for information to:- 1. President's Secretariat (Public), Islamabad 2. President's Secretariat (Personal), Islamabad. 3. Prime Minister's Secretariat (Internal), Islamabad, 4, Prime Minister's Secretariat (Public), Islamabad 5. 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(Dr. Muhammé@ismail Hasni) ‘Section Officer (R-10)- . oO) No.) etmp /83 Government of Pakistan A Finanee Division amabid the Wth August, 1983 OFFICE MEMORANDUM, SUBIEGT: SCHEME OF BASIC PAY SCALES AND FRING. BENBPITS OF CIVIL EMPLOYEES OF THE FEDERAL i GOVERNMENT (1983) _. sinction, with effect ‘The President has been pleased to from Ist July, 1983, a Scheme, as detailed below, of the Rasie Pay Seales, Allowances and other Fringe Benefits, 1983, for the civil employees of the Federal Government, paid dircetly or [rom the Defence Estimates - from the Civil Estima PART I: BASIC SCALES AND ALLIED MATTERS SALES OF PAY: The Basic Scales of Pay, shall replace } 1983, 4a shown In the Sehedule annexed to thie O-M The the existing Revised National Sewley of Pay (RN PS). Basic Seales shall not be regarded ae "grades" and. shall pot ferred to as grades in official communications. Officials ' be shall henceférth be appointed /promoted to posts and not in grades. 3. INITIAL FIXATION OF PAY: (i) The initial pay of + ie, an employee who has been ‘in Government Mn existing employee, service since before the Ist of July, 1983, shall be fixed at the Stage in the relevant Basic Puy Scale which is as many stages Imam us the stage occupied by him above the minimum lational Pay Seale, provided that where shove the mi of the existing Revised Nv, ¥ 80 determined does not give the employee concerned of 10% of his existing basic pay plus Deurness BEEN Se os, 5. winimuny advantage MMowanee over and shave the present emoluments dvawn by him. his pay shall be fixed at the lowest stage in the dvintiges provided further that the Seule that gives him ihut je shall not he exeeedid in sasinuer af the relevant Basie thy cave. In Chis fixation formula, "emoluments would mean ‘he-sum of pay, Dearnvss Allowanee and Local Compensatory AMawanee sf an fang.(er Jantor Instructary in Polytechnics whi passes Herhnical wamee Tes HM pam Feaehers Biptone shall be alleged Peaching A Doctors whe teach baie aciences in Medical Colleges: ehall be allowed a Teaching Allowance @ Rs 500/= p.m. la. Charge Mowance to Prineyuls Of Colleges and Polytechnics shall be admissible at the fullawing rates 1) Principats of Degree Collen: Colleges of Technoluny srs QMO. pam. ©) Principals of Intermediate Colleges/ Polytechnics == Rs 100/- pam. a WARDEN ALLOWANCE: Teachers whe are assigned the nd Polytechnics shall be allowed duty of Hostel Wardens in Colleges 4 Warden Allowance of Rs 100/- p.m. 14, NCE INCREMENTS TO SCHOOL TEACHERS ON TAINING CHER QUALIFI Primary, Middle and High, School teachers who posses S)> hall be allowed or-acquire while in service higher qualifications advance increments us under! 1. PRIMARY SCHOOL: Fare G) A teacher who posscases or acquire shi I be allowed two advance increments. (i) A teacher who (in addition to FA/F.Sc.) also acquires C.T, shall be allowed one additional advance increment. (ii) A teacher who acquires a degréc of BA/B.Se. i shall be allowed three additional advance ierements DDL OL: n A teacher who possesses or acquires a depres of BAL fae B.Sc, shall be allowed three advance increments!” A teacher who possesses ar acquires Mastor’s degree shall be allowed three advanee increments. In cane of a teacher whe pa oF acquives Master's degree n Bdueation (M.Ed) and alge a Master's degree iit Mny academic subject shall be allowed six advance increments. Provided ihat a teacher whe ne already dean increments for possessing higher educational quilification Bader the esisting seales shall be allowed sneremonts Equa te kor lL in Uke number st onc ecinent vif amy.el GB) PS to Secretaries (vovineial) PA to Ministers(Federal) PA to Ministers of Stat eo 100 PA to Secretaries (Federal) 60 190 PA to AddiScerctaries (Federal) 60 100 ba io Seeretaries (Provincial) 50 15 PA to Joint Sreretaries (Federal) 45 5 fb) Fick Officers on appotniinent 4 Deputy Secretary al pay ut Re 400/~ in the Federal Scevetariat shall be allowed 9 spe pem. in addition to basie pay- PART = Hl: ALLOWANG G) DEARNESS ALLOWANCE, LOCAL COMPENSS ME LOWANCE AND LEAVE TRAVEL CONCESSION AND T_AND RECRE ALLOWANCE: Aw from the Ist of July, 2983, the existing Dearncss Allowancoy Loval Compensatory Allowance wherever admissible, and the Leave Yel Concession and Rest und Recreation Allowance in Tew thereof. shall cease to be admissible to an employee sho draws pay 17 these Basic Pay Scales. (ii) The existing rules and orders regulating the grant of House Rent Allowance, Conveyance Allowance and Washing Allowance shatt continue 16 be applicable ATAINMENT ALLOWANCE: Entertulninent Allowance hall be admissible at the following fixed rates to officers drawing pay in B+20 to B-22:- 1) B20 ge 400/- pro tay bert Re A50/~ pene (3) pte Re 650/~ Peme Jo, NON-PRACEISING ALLOWANCE: Tho existing ratew of Non=Practiving Alowance shall be revised as under:~ Rg 500/-p.m: Doctors drawing pay in B-i9 und aboves- Rs 700/> Pm Doctors drawing pay in B-17 and B18 rhe abave don-Practising Allawanee shall be achinissible wn all cases where a dnetor is not allowed private practices + Tpoctors pasted in rural areas below town comaritice 1ev ual aHowel private practice, shall be given a Practice Compensatory «1 @ Re 300/- p Anawance Wits 200/- pens for mile doctors i u WANG: be dbesvat tm quabtwd thigh Sehout Teachers whe teen basic! mnatkuvidseitmees. : Teaching Allowance @ Rs 100/- pym.shall(47 Ga) Tr the cane nt prtst al curfisas avel or Carpenters, vole Welton, ces, cine Stareskespore aud Ascetant 5 pers whieh ro different level ef expertise ynd responsibilities different organisations, appropriate Basic Pay Scales may, with the appraval of the competent authority, be allowed in different iwation while Gling Inte account organisations ar ove fate same orgs the omrket value of auch artisans ane their level of competence (©) In specially meritorious cases, Basic Scale B-21 or B-22 slong with allowances vod fringe benefits may be allowed, with the ujpreval of the President, te technical and professional officers without requiring them to move from their technical posts whore their expertise 4 particvlarly needed. The number of suete beneficiaries will not exceed 12.52 of the total number of poste: in B-20 in any partioular cadve under the Federal or Provincial Government. (d) In ‘cases where it is necessary for Government to reervit and/or to continue in employment certain officials who have wcquired expertise in a highly specialised field, special contract terms may be offered to such ‘narrow-narrow specialists’. For this purpose, a Special Stinding Commiticn shall be constituied by Government to deal with such cases. ‘The! Standing Commitee vie take into uecount the market value of the !narrow-nayvow specials and recommend proper remunerations to engage or to retain their ca) JON 1 In cases where the Basic Seales under (A) above higher than the in scale which corresponds to the revised NPS have been allowed, mitial fixation of pay of the employees concerned shall first be imide in the Basie Seale corresponding to his existing RNPS in the light of the initial fixation of pay formula mentioned in para 3 above, and thereafter their pays in the higher Basic Seales shall be fixed at the next higher stage. a 4, (a) The existing special pays adinssible SPECIAL PAYS 10 ulficinls of various uategories working as Private Sec retin’ aud Personal Assi Hs shall be revised as under:~ Hanne HS to Ministers (Federal) 220 250 PS ty Atinisters (Provine ial] 150200 Hi ta Secretaries (Federal) isa 20 VS to Mdditional Sueretaries (Federal) 100150 #5 to Secretaries (Provinenl) loo 150G1) Annnat snercment shall coutinnae to be admissible abject to existing conditions oa the Ist of December exeh year under this Scheme. Howe ery the first anugal increment of existing: employees in the Busi¢ Seales shall accrue gn the Ist of December, logs, PROMOTION: “The existing ating the fixation of pay in cage of promotion provisions regu of employees from a lower to a higher post shall continue te apply. 5. MOVE-OVER: The existing provisions ver ting the concession of move-aver without promotion to the next higher yployces in RNPS-1 (Bel) to RNPS “16 (B-L6) shall pay seale of continue to be applicable in this Sch 6 The existing concession of 'move-over! of employée from RNPS=16 to RNPS-17(B-17) and RNPS-17(B-17) to RNPS- 18 (B-18) shall be extended upto B-20 and regu ed as under \) The existing condition of the period of stay of three years at the maximum of pay scales B-16 and B=17 in the case of non-technical and non~ professional categories shall continue to be applicable. L) No move-over beyond B-18 in the case of the categories of employees mentioned at (a) above shall be permissible. ¢) The move-over in the case of technical and professional categories e.g, Doctors, Engineers, Educationists, Economists, Management Accountants, Scientists, Avchueologists Geologists, Meteovologists, Experts of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Forestry shall be permissible upto B-20, without the condition of stay at the maximum for three yours. a) Move-over shall be allowed in cases where un employees who is otherwise considered fit for promotion to higher post, cannot be promoted for want of a vacancy ©) Normal promotion procedure as is observed in cases of promotion through the competent authority, °-5 Establishment Division/Selection Board shall be followed in allowing mevo-over to Busic Seales 19 and 20. cmon N_CASE_OF CERTAIN POSTS: Ga) ty the case of co ain posts, the Basie Lin Apnexure-tf to this OM. will be allowed.(6) INCREMENTS TO TECHNICAL AND PRO! ON POSSESSING/ ACQUIRING HIGHER LONS SIONAL Educutionints, Erouomists, Manqgemont EEE agriculturc. Doctors, ngineers, Animal Husbandry anc Forestry working in Universities, Colle Reacarch institutions or Wwchnical departments shall be allowed Advance increments on possessing/acquiring higher qualifications as undert- () In case @ technicul/professional employee of the above category possesses D,Sc., Ph.D. degree from a foreign university,"he shall be allowed six advance inevements fon entry into wervice in B-17. (ii) ‘Those of the above categories of officers who posses MA/M.Se./M.S. or equivalent from a foreign univeristy or.Ph.D,or M.Phil. from @ university in Pakistan will receive four advance inexements on induction in service in B-1?. (iii) Those of the above categories of employees who while in service obtain a degree shall be allowed four advance increments in case of (i) » in case of (ii) above. 16. IGN_ALLOWAN in engineering and working full time in the Design Offices shall gineers holding University degree be allowed @ Design Allowance at the following rates: Engineers drawing pay in B-17 =~ Rs 400/- p.m Engineers drawing pay in B-18 =~ Rs 500/- p.m. Engineers drawing pay in B-19 = Rs 600/~ p.m. ngineers drawing pay in B-20 ~~ Rs 700/- p.m. S.A.S. Accountants shall Te QUALIFIGATION ALLOWANCE: be allowed a Qualification Allowance of Re 100/- p.m. on qualifying -A.S. of equivalent examination. This allowance shall continue the to be admissible as 2 separate entity even aflor their prowption lo higher posts. ANCE: Audi’ officers 18, PERFORMANC’. BY, working in the Performance Evaluation Cell shall be allowog Performance PION ALLOW. Evaluation Allowance at the following BHI7 and Bolt == Rs 300/- pom : B19 and B20 — Rs 400/- pom, co SPECIAL RESEARGI ALLOWANCE: Field Officers on their AMpeintment a research institutions for doing rescareh work shall be allowed a Spucial Rescarch Allowance @ 208 of their Busit Pay. “i DEIUTATION ALLOWANCE: He lew of the exustiye fixed: i 1 fo frei) serview tn Pakistan. shall be allowed a Beputation AHowenwre 10% Of the minim of Chea Bask Pay Seates a DAILY ALOWaNe Phe pay oP Hoes sselunisibs lity ot higher rates of Duly Allowanre nutitiod vuke his Division's Qual. FAA Ost et ated P62 DK, canal hess uncle Pay: lunits Special Rate Ovdliniey Rate i a is = Res AUN) sand above on im Prom Re SEMy ta Kes 319) * “ Kvont Ra WOM te Rs 99 a 10 Bron Re SOU te ts tons 0 wi Upto ks s00/- as 26 parr 2 YOUSH WAILDING ADVANGE: AL present, Uause luilding Absince eral to 24 months! pay is allawed te Gescrnnent simevants Foro payin Has soalee is and alive. Lhis pay limit stall henceforth be rvised to 346 mantis, a Govern servants who do not chim interest an thrir Go Tend Rabinces shall not be charged interest on House uitding Advance ar other advances selmbssible uniter sim rides. uM Gos F BUQUU TRARSEUSION® The cost of bloat tine Hisioy 8) at present rombuesiiie 10 the Federal Government Put nor te he Proving Goyerninent cinployena. Henectarths the fest of blood transfusion shell Ie remburseable ts Government under the Provineal Gawernments also, AL present enearhaent af LPR upte Six months is permissible ta Government servants provided the LER io refused by Gavcrnmmnt in public interest. Honcetarihy the option for encashinent al LPR shall rest wit, the Gaveraeén servant concerned. In case, a Gove ment erent apts not te take EEK he shall be allowed lowe slay for the perivd tor which LPR bs aaliniestbybe ssilajert ta ae means ff Shs ments The word * fumity" for tke peepose of medical treatoent shattealse syeluele paren coche nerwint resicling with and Hependent on bien. ”. AML eesti. rote inl ations au tie cubjeet sdhatl be abeemedt~ me AROMAUIES! A Gonsittoe will beset up in thw Finanen Deesion (Regulations Wing), tu resolve the anomalies. 41 anys SESE OE OF the intraductian uf thie Scheme, 3 koparaty eammunicat ion sill be issued i this connection « . ms NI ne ae é Y2Aey (CQsmmeeudtin sicletiegat) Additional Finance Secretary AM Ministries /p: SUR aE, a b mane