Finance Ministry rejects claims of salary hikes for Government employees
Although there was a salary increment for those who represent the Judicial System, there is no truth in the claims that the salary of other state employees will be increased in parallel to that, stated the Ministry of Finance.
Issuing a release, the Ministry pointed out that there had been a cabinet proposal for this in year 2006.
Accordingly, although the salaries of the officials in the Attorney General’s Department and the Legal Draftsman’s Department will be increased by this, it is not possible to increase the salary of other parties, stated the Finance Ministry.
Meanwhile, salary increment of MPs had been a controversial topic in the political platform.
However, Minister Mano Ganesan stated that there will certainly not be a salary increment for MPs.
(Ada Derana)
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In the1st place what is the reasons to increase the salaries of the Supreme Court judges 3 fold is it for postponing cases for about 8 years and dismissing them or for not using article 126(5) which states a petition filed in the Supreme court should be completed within 2 months of filing such petition . The idiom for such a situation is thus ” while the Executive, the legislative and the Judiciary are playing the flute we the people and our country are burning, with apologies to Rome is burning while Neru is playing the flute