The salary increment and other allowances for public servants proposed by Finance Minister Mangala Samaraweera in his budget 2019 is effective from today (July 01), the spokesperson of the Ministry of Finance, Ali Hassen said.
Accordingly, all public servants will receive an additional monthly allowance of Rs 2500.00, the allowance for security forces will be increased, anomalies of 500,000 pensioners will be removed, allowance for the differently abled will be increased and the number of recipients of the kidney patients’ allowance will be increased. The government has allocated a total sum of Rs. 40,000 million for this purpose.
Under the public servants’ salary increment, 1.1 million public servants are entitled to receive an Interim Allowance of Rs. 2,500 effective today. The government had bourne Rs. 20,000 million to pay this allowance. Although the payment of this Interim Allowance is implemented effective today, the cost of living allowance of Rs.7, 800 currently being paid to the public servants will be continued as it was.
Tri Forces allowances increased - some after 20 years!
Meanwhile, another step of increasing payment of allowance for tri forces officers and members of other ranks is implemented from today (July 01). The government took measures to increase the monthly quota for the tri forces officers and members of other ranks effective last January. Accordingly, approval was given recently to increase the monthly ration quota for officers up to Rs.23, 231 and for members of other ranks up to Rs.19, 350.
In addition, the house rent being paid for the tri forces members will be doubled effective today. Simultaneously, the commando allowance for the members in parallel ranks of Sri Lanka Army, Sri Lanka Navy and Sri Lanka Air force will be increased up to Rs.5, 000 from Rs.1, 000 effective today. The government will spend Rs.1, 175 million for this purpose, the Finance Ministry said adding that certain allowances that have been increased for the members of the tri forces effective July 1st were stagnated at the same point for the last 20 years.
Pensioners' salary anomaly rectified
In addition, the budget proposal to remove the pensioners’ salary anomaly will be effective from today. Accordingly, the pensions of over five hundred thousand public servants who retired before December 31, 2015 will be increased by a minimum sum of Rs. 2,800 and a maximum amount of Rs.20,000.
At the same time, the cost of living allowance of Rs. 3,250 being paid to the pensioners will be paid continuously. The government has allocated Rs. 12,000 million to settle this salary anomaly of pensioners.
Differently abled allowances increased
In addition, the proposal by Finance Minister Mangala Samaraweera to increase the monthly allowance of differently abled persons to Rs. 5,000 from Rs. 3,000 will also be implemented from today. Accordingly, in addition to the 32,000 differently abled persons who are already entitled to receive this allowance, another 40,000 on the waiting list will be added to this scheme with a total number of 72,000 differently abled persons becoming eligible to receiving this monthly allowance Rs. 5,000 from today. The government has allocated Rs. 4,350 million for this purpose.
Kidney patients not overlooked!
The government has already been paying a monthly allowance of Rs. 5,000 each to 21,000 chronically ill kidney patients. A large number of similar patients are on the waiting list to receive this monthly allowance. As such, another 5,000 patients will receive this allowance effective today with the government allocating Rs. 1,840 for this purpose.
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