UNB, Dhaka :The government on Thursday launched a salary and pension fixation online system for government employees, aiming to make their salary fixation easiest and reduce sufferings in drawing pension.Finance Minister AMA Muhith formally inaugurated the system at the Secretariat. State Minister for Finance MA Mannan, Cabinet Secretary Mohammad Shafiul Alam, Senior Secretary of Finance Division Mahbub Ahmed and Local Government Division Secretary Abdul Malek were present.Muhith said, government officials now face tremendous hassles in drawing their pensions and the introduction of the online system to fix their salary and pension is a remarkable step towards building ‘Digital Bangladesh’.Government officials now will be able to determine their salaries easily and automatically using the online salary fixation software. To do so, they must provide inputs about their service records and National Identification (NID) cards.The introduction of online salary fixation software aims to create a database of government employees which will help maintain accounts and formulate budgets for salaries and pension. Describing the features of the system, Senior Secretary of Finance Division Mahbub Ahmed said once the task of online salary fixation is completed it will help implement the newly announced pay scale.At present, all retired government officials have to go to accounts offices or banks to draw their pension and they often face sufferings. Under the salary and pension fixation online system, steps have been taken to send pension money to the bank accounts of pensioners through Electronic Bank Transfer (EFT). And pensioners will be informed through SMS to their mobile phones.So, Mahbub Ahmed said, the pensioners can draw their pension money from their bank accounts in their convenient time. Besides, a new software, ‘iBAS++ ‘, on coordinated budget formulation, implementation and accounts was launched yesterday replacing the existing iBAS.
