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Rawalpindi Colleges teachers criticise decision: Increase in BF deduction
Rawalpindi, Feb 28, 2008: College lecturers and professors in Rawalpindi have
criticised the government decision of enhancing the monthly deduction from their
salaries under the benevolent fund, and increasing the percentage of marks
necessary for their children to get scholarships after matriculation.
The
Punjab Professors and Lecturers Association (PPLA) in a press release called
upon the government to reverse the decision that had increased the monthly BF
deduction from two percent to three percent of their basic salary since October
1. They also criticised the government for enhancing the marks required for
their children to get a scholarship of Rs12,000 from 50 per cent to 60 per
cent.
In a letter written to the governor and chief secretary Punjab on
February 20, the PPLA office-bearers had demanded the government to withdraw
both the decisions.
PPLA Rawalpindi chapter president
Ilyas Qureshi said only one percent BF was deducted from the basic salary of
federal government employees while the Punjab government had increased it from
two to three percent. He said no notification was issued in this regard and it
was advertised only in a Lahore-based newspaper.
The BF, according to
law, is primarily used to award scholarship to the children of government
servants after they pass their matriculation.
Under the new requirement,
it would be harder for the students to qualify for the scholarship, he said. "It
is our own money and to spend it for our welfare tough conditions have been
made," he deplored. Dawn
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