Approve the National Pay Scale 2026 to help 2.4 million Dhaka public servants offset surging inflation. Public sector workers gain phased relief through 2028, while private employees fear rapid market price hikes across Bangladesh.

MPO-enrolled teachers and employees of the country’s private educational institutions will receive the benefits of the new national pay scale, Finance Secretary Khairuzzaman Mozumder said yesterday.

The government yesterday approved the largest pay hike for civil service since independence, doubling the basic salary of top officials and raising the lowest pay by a record 142 percent.

The government must go for credible tax reforms, stronger revenue mobilisation.

The interim government yesterday formed a new pay commission for public officials and employees under the National Pay Scale, marking a key move towards adjusting salaries in line with inflation.

The new national pay scale by the present government is undoubtedly a good initiative which has satisfied a majority of the country's government employees.

A delegation of the agitating public university teachers will meet Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina tomorrow to discuss the ongoing stalemate at the universities.

Agitating teachers under the banner of Federation of Bangladesh University Teachers Association (FBUTA) consider tougher programmes over the new pay scale dispute.

It was supposed to get praise but all it generated was bitterness. The eighth National Pay Scale should have come as good news for the public servants as it will give them more money in the pocket and a number of other perks.

Government officials block a road in Dhaka’s Farmgate for nearly an hour protesting what they said discrimination in the eighth national pay scale.

When an author of Oscar Wilde's stature could say, "A cheque is the only argument I recognise," he merely switched from his loyalty to philosophy over to the practicality of being money-wise. What would other mortals then do except follow in his footsteps!

Public university teachers throughout Bangladesh go on work abstention demanding a separate pay scale.