Online service for salaries of govt staff

Government employees can now get their salaries confirmed online, thanks to a new service launched yesterday.

Earlier, they had to do it manually and flit from office to office for the process. Now, they would be able to do it from the comfort of their homes.

They will have to log into the web portal and key in personal details such as name, national ID number, date of birth, date of joining the government job and last salary.

Their salary will then appear on screen and they would have to confirm it.

Finance Minister AMA Muhith was the first to use the service to get his pension confirmed.

Muhith went into self-retirement in 1981 as a secretary after completion of 25 years in public service. The following year, he became the finance and planning minister in the HM Ershad government.

From then on Muhith has been drawing pension that now stands at Tk 4,309 a month. But under the new pay scale, his monthly pension increased to Tk 6,463, which was confirmed online yesterday.

After Muhith, Finance Secretary Mahbub Ahmed used the system for his pay. As a senior secretary, his salary stands at Tk 82,000.

Ahmed said the system will make the preparation of the national budget easier.

“It is an epoch-making step,” said MA Mannan, state minister for finance and planning.

Thanks to the system, on the day the defence staff goes into retirement they can take home their retirement benefit cheques, he said.

The system needs to be put in place for civil service as well, so that they do not face hassles, he said.

Mannan said he has seen many teachers going from one office to another carrying umbrella after going into retirement to get his retirement benefits sanctioned.