PESHAWAR: Retired Bank Officers Association demanded an increase in their pensions, making it similar to that of the government employees – to overcome their financial problems.
“Thousands of retired bank officers are deprived of an annual increase in pension as no increase has yet been made,” association’s General Secretary Ahmed Mufti said.
The general secretary said that the country’s president had issued a circular in May 2016 that approved the issuance of pensions to retired employees of the government banks under the Pension Scheme 1977.
Mufti further said that the retired banks officers were being paid Rs 3,800 to Rs 10,600 per month in pensions against Rs 70,000 being given to retired government officers of the same scale. He urged the officials concerned to prioritise the problems of the retired bank officials and increase their annual pension.
