Govt to appoint ‘technical experts’ on special packages

While simultaneously working on proposals for expenditure control, the government is ready to hire around one and a half dozen technical experts and consultancy firms from the market at special remuneration packages, starting with the ministries of energy and finance. The recruitment model for ‘technical advisers’ would subsequently be replicated in 10 other economic and technical ministries in due course, a senior official told Dawn. He said Finance Minister Mohammad Aurangzeb would build an expert team of his own, probably from the banking sector, to look at things from a fresh and doable angle, rather than the traditional bureaucratic set-up. Likewise, a total of 10 ‘technical advisers’, including a couple of consultants, would be immediately hired at Special Professional Pay Scales (SPPS) in the petroleum division. The prime minister has already approved the revised remuneration structure for four different grades of SPPS, involving an all-inclusive remuneration package of Rs2 million for SPPS-1, up to Rs1.5m for SPPS-II, up to Rs1m for SPPS-III, and up to Rs500,000 per month for SPPS-IV.