Discrimination through pay scale

Every time a pay commission is formed in Bangladesh and it publishes reports a secretarial committee finalises the commission proposals. This year is no exception. But this time the secretarial committee discriminated against all other cadres and non-cadre employees. The first one is the creation of two pay grades for secretaries over grade-1: one for the cabinet secretary and the chief secretary to the PM, the other for senior secretaries. The other notable discrimination is the proposal of abolishing selection grade and time scale facilities usually applicable to employees other than the administration cadre.

If selection grade and time scale facilities are snatched away, most cadres (having less tiers than administration) will lose even the chance of reaching grade-2; most of them would end their service at grade-4! Therefore, I urge the secretarial committee and the cabinet to do justice to them by keeping both the selection grade and time scale.  

MAS Molla
Life member, BAAS