20pc raise in salary, pension likely for govt employees

ISLAMABAD, April 4: The government is expected to announce in the next budget a 20 per cent increase in salary and pensions of government employees and six special honoraria payments to all officials of the finance ministry. Informed sources told Dawn on Wednesday that according to initial estimates of the finance ministry the financial impact of the salary and pension increase would be around Rs25-30 billion. An official said the authorities had initially considered to revise the basic pay structures of government employees, but later decided to offer an ad hoc relief to help them cope with inflation because there was no adequate time to call meetings of the Pay and Pension Commission to firm up long-term proposals. He said the 20 per cent increase would be across the board for all grades and cadres. The official said an additional option under consideration was monetisation of housing facilities of senior government officials of grade 20-22 by offering them Rs55,000 to Rs70,000 a month to pay as rent for houses of their choice on the condition that they would vacate official residences. In order to implement this scheme, he said, the authorities were taking into consideration the initial work done by a previous Pay and Pension Commission headed by State Bank’s former governor Dr Ishrat Hussain. He said a committee headed by Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission Dr Nadeemul Haque was in the process of finalising its recommendations. The scheme will initially be for federal government officials in top three basic pay scales. The official said the government was expected to increase the house rent allowances by 200-300 per cent for employees of grades 1 to 19, but that would take some time. He said the finance ministry was proposing six special honoraria payments — equivalent to six basic salaries — for all officials working under five federal secretaries associated with the ministry of finance and economic affairs and the Federal Board of Revenue for their extra work in the budget-making exercise. Last year the government increased the salary and pensions by 15 per cent and also announced monetisation of transport facility for grade 20-22 officers with a monthly cash payment of up to Rs85,000. The monetisation policy has been implemented in a couple of ministries. In the 2010-11 budget, the government allowed an ad hoc monthly allowance of 50 per cent of the basic pay which was merged into the basic salary last year. The official said the PPP government had allowed a cumulative increase of 105 per cent over the past four years which, in terms of compound impact, worked out to about 135 per cent.

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10 Steps Towards Coping with Office Conflicts Article

Read a nice guidance and reproducing with duly acknowledging the original author:



Our professional life and personal life are interlinked and have their overwhelming effects on each other. But life is like that and we are human beings because we have reason and emotions. We cannot defy the fact, so let's accept it, when we are frustrated and depressed in our personal life and relationships, our professional life is affected indirectly. If our professional life is driving us nuts, our personal life can be a living hell as well. Now, how to strike a balance in our emotions? Let us take our workplace problems in this article. Some of us are more vulnerable to our boss and our coworker's mischief.

Right?

The boss's angry statement and a coworker's remark is enough to put a question mark on our self respect and worth in our own eyes. As if whatever they said was capable of showing our real self, and we take it personally and then overreact. Here is the point where our vulnerability brings in anger in us followed by a series of incidents to spoil the atmosphere for you in office. Is this a desirable situation for you? No, never. Giving into the mischief will ruin your peace of mind causing professional as well as personal hazard.

The question is, how to grip the situation and bring it under your control? You will have to start the endeavour by not being vulnerable to your boss's and coworker's negative attitude. Then the other actions will follow....let's go step by step:

Step 1: Identify your coworker/boss's mischief. By understanding "this is mischief" you will not take it personally any more.

Step 2: Remember, self respect means realizing the fact that in spite of all your imperfections, you are a worthwhile human being.

Step 3: You have been taking coworker/boss's angry remarks personally, and trying to give him reasons to let him understand your point. Trust me, reason has nothing to do with his anger and his statements. Spot yourself taking his statements personally and trying to make him understand your points...then stop doing so.

Step 4: You are NOT avoiding or denying the fact. You are just gaining the power of being logical, so that you do not overreact. You are choosing to deal appropriately with mischief.

Step 5: Now, try to deduce what kind of reaction they expect when they do the mischief? Anger, threatening, begging, flattering; that means they expect mischief from us, so that we feel week and ashamed in our own eyes.

Step 6: Our goal is to respond to their mischief with self respect so that they cannot harm us. When the self respect is hurt, we lose peace of mind and our worth.

Step 7: Start responding in an unexpected way. They do not expect us to agree with them. No, you do not have to agree with them, just allow them to feel they way they want.

Say "I do not blame you for being angry. I would feel the same if I were you." Let him understand that you are giving him respect in spite of his imperfections.

Step 8: Ask him to talk when he will be cool enough to discuss the matter, and ask him what actions should be taken to change the situation. Talk in a professional way, impersonating the whole issue, and talk to affect him.

Step 9: Agree to them on the fact that if you give them what they want, it would be nice. This will give him some relief from there painful anger while we stand on our ground. But you have not said that you will do whatever he wants.

Step 10: Your behavior would be of a person who is strong enough not be provoked by boss's and coworker's anger mischief. You are standing strong with self respect by answering to their questions, not being hostile but in a morally superior way.

When we are face to face with our anger provoking coworker/boss, our concentration is solely on their mischief and not on us. This way we forget that we are also a person and the mischief provoking man in front of us, is an imperfect human being. By changing focus from them to our own selves, we see how we should keep ourselves away from their provocations and thus keep away from doing the same mischief. This way we make ourselves morally superior to those mischief making coworkers and boss. And this realization of difference between you and them will give you the power to keep your self respect as well as mutual respect and save you from conflicts and depression in your professional life.

The author, Monalisa Hyden, addresses psychological issues. If you wish to help yourself and your loved ones to fight emotional problems, you can log on to [http://www.buy-xanax-online-now.com] for more information and advice.

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Pakistan's Problem in respect of WATER

Being a water related professional, following are water related problems of Pakistan:

1. Low freshwater per capita
2. Low water use efficiencies,
3. Absence of country level planning and decision support models.
4. lack of long term planning and Sustainability

Please add your comments and add to the list of problems, considering problem identification is first step towards solution:

Pakistan-meri Jan

What the hell is going on..... Attack, attack and attack .

Be it PNS Mehran, or Abbotabad, or Peshawer, all are attacks on Pakistan's sovereignty. Obhama has vowed to attack again, to make himself safe, and safer.

At this tough time for Pakistan, I want to say "I AM WITH PAKISTAN" Pakistan is my JAAN, and I Can do any thing to protect my JAAN.

I can not change policies at Government Level, but I can change myself. I will invite all of you to change yourself, and

1. BE Honest to Pakistan
2. Be Honest to your Job (any profession you are attached to)
3. Be Honest to your friends, neighbors, and country fellow.

We are united, and will remain united.

May Allah Help us.

UET Lahore ranked on 281st in list of Engineering Universities round the World.

QS World University Rankings 2010 - Technology

Professor Igor Shiklomanov passed away

On 22 August 2010, Professor Igor Shiklomanov passed away at the age of 72. He was most recently the Director of the State Hydrological Institute in the St. Petersburg, Russian Federation.

Prof. Shiklomanov was most well known for his assessments of global water resources and its availability, needs, development, etc. His first article on this subject, "Exploitation of the Earth's water resources" was made in UNESCO-IHP's epoch-making publication World Water Balance and Water Resources of the Earth in 1974 where he and co-author G.P. Kallinin outlined an assessment of the world's water resources that is still used by many today.

With more than 250 publications to his name, his participation in many steering committees and working groups and his continual presence working with many international organizations over the course of his career, he was a highly respected member of the water community and his loss will be felt by not only UNESCO-IHP, but by many others around the world.

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Selected for the post of Associate Professor in the selection board on 5 May 2009. Thanks to Allah.