KATHMANDU, April 30: The government has started paying salaries to civil servants within 15 days.
The Ministry of Finance (MoF) started the 15-day payments as a pilot project on Wednesday. Finance Minister Dr Swarnim Wagle launched the work of paying salaries to employees amid a special program organized at the MoF.
Finance Minister Dr Wagle started the work of paying salaries on a bi-monthly basis by sending a payment order to the Treasury and Accounts Controller Offices through the Computerized Government Accounting System (CGAS), the salary entry system of the Financial Comptroller General Office.
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With the issuance of the order by the MoF, the employees of the ministry received their salaries for the first half of the Nepali month of Baisakh. Speaking at the program, Finance Minister Dr Wagle said that the government has decided to make the economy dynamic through implementation of the system.
'Paying salaries within 15 days makes the market dynamic. Both consumption and demand will increase,” said Dr Wagle, adding that the system has been implemented as a pilot project for federal civil servants. “Gradually, all government employees will get this facility.”
Comptroller General Shobha Kant Poudel said that government employees of provinces and other services will also gradually get their salaries every 15 days.
He echoed Dr Wagle saying that the new payment system on a bi-monthly basis will create regular demand in the market and keep the economy moving.
On April 4, the government decided to proceed with the work of paying salaries to government employees every 15 days as a pilot project.
