Pay Revision Bill of Bhutan 2023
The Finance Minister introduced the Pay Revision Bill of Bhutan 2023 to the House today.
The Finance Minister submitted that the revision has been based on ensuring public servants are fairly remunerated and that the revision will promote competency, meritocracy and dynamism and at the same time endeavor to motivate and retain talents in the public service.
The revision is also based on Standard Survey 2022 that illustrates the minimum expenditure per month amounts to Nu.19374 and many fall below the baseline. He further added that the pay revision proposes a minimum revision of 50% for all the civil servants across all position levels as lump sum provided under the monthly variable compensation and that the pay revision of one-off 5% indexation and one-off fixed payment under the Pay Structure Reform Act of Bhutan 2022 shall be continued as part of the pay revision.
After the support of the House to deliberate on the Bill, it was referred to the Economics and Finance Committee for further review. The Committee will report back to the House with its findings and recommendations on 21st June for Third Reading.
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