Dhaka: The secretary committee on 8^th National Pay and Services Commission has recommended Tk 75,000 as highest salary and Tk 8,250 instead lowest salary for the government employees.

However, it suggested maintaining the 20-grade pay scale for the public servants.

Finance Minister AMA Muhith announced the confirmation of pay hike while talking to reporters about the secretary committee’s recommendations on the pay commission report.

The secretary committee, headed by Cabinet Secretary Mosharraf Hossain, submitted its report to the Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Wednesday.

Last year, the government formed the 8^th National Pay and Services Commission headed by former Bangladesh Bank governor Dr Farashuddin.  Nearly 1.3 million public servants are eagerly waiting for the new pay scale.

The secretary-level committee, headed by the Cabinet Secretary, was formed in January to review the recommendations of the 8^th National Pay and Services Commission.

The finance minister said that though he received the secretary committee report, the government will think about it after placement of the National Budget 2015-16 in parliament on June 4.

“We’re not thinking about it before 4^th June. But be sure, its implementation will start from 1^st July 2015,” said Muhith.

The finance minister also dropped an indication that the pay commission might be implemented in two phases like the previous one.

He also rejected the idea that the implementation of pay commission would bring any negative impact such as pushing up essentials’ prices or common peoples’ expenses.

He also mentioned that the secretary committee has recommended a permanent mechanism with certain percentage of automatic hike in salary instead of forming such temporary pay commissions to recommend salary hikes.