Government employees to deposit certain amount of a month salary to disaster relief fund

Kathmandu: A fixed amount of government employees’ monthly salary will be deposited into the Prime Minister Disaster Relief Fund.

The secretary-level meeting held today at the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers took the decision to contribute to relief and rehabilitation efforts following significant loss of life and property due to deadly disasters.

As per the decision, unclassified employees will contribute amount equal to two days’ salary from their monthly basic pay, non-gazetted or equivalent employees will contribute five days’ salary, gazetted third and second-class or equivalent employees will contribute seven days’ salary, and gazetted first-class and special-class employees will contribute ten days’ salary for the month of Bhadra (mid-August to mid-September) to the Fund.

This will accumulate the amount around Rs 360 million from federal government employees to the relief Fund.

Additionally, the meeting decided to appeal to employees working in the province and local governments, and all public bodies to also contribute their salary/wage in the same manner to support the Prime Minister’s Disaster Relief Fund.

The meeting also decided to emphatically advance the search, rescue, relief, and temporary shelter arrangement for people affected by the flood. All ministries and agencies should immediately deploy their resources, means, and human resource to make disaster management work prompt and effective, the decision states.

Arrangements should be made for staff to work mandatorily even on public holidays as needed, ensuring government and public services continue regularly in disaster-affected areas as per the decision.

The meeting also decided that the concerned ministries and agencies will immediately proceed with the reconstruction of essential infrastructure damaged by the flood, such as roads, bridges, drinking water, electricity, and telecommunications.

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