GRANT OF AD-HOC RELIEF ALLOWANCE - 2019 TO THE CIVIL SERVANTS OF PUNJAB GOVERNMENT (Salaries Increase in Budget 2019)

I am directed to slate that the Governor of the Punjab has been pleased to sanction an Ad-hoc Relief Allowance - 2019 with effect from 1st July, 2019 and till further orders to all the Civil Servants of the Punjab Government and contract employees employed against civil posts in Basic Pay Sales on standard tems and conditions of contract appointment as details below:
a) BS-1 lo BS-16     @ 10% of the basic pay.
b) BS-17 to BS-20   @5% of the basic pay.
2.  This Allowance is not admissible to contract employees drawing lump-sum pay packages. The amount of this Ad-hoc Relief Allowance - 2019 will:

• be subject to Income Tax. 
• be admissible during leave and entire period of LPR except during extra ordinary leave. 
• not be treated as part of emoluments for the purpose of calculation of pension / gratuity and recovery of House Rent. 
• not be admissible to the employees during the tenure of their posting / deputation abroad. 
• be admissible to the employees on their repatriation from posting / deputation abroad at the rate and amount which would have been admissible to them had they not been posted abroad.  

The terrn "Basic Pay" for the purpose of Ad-hoc Relief Allowance - 2019 will also include the amount of the personal pay granted on account of annual increment(s).
The above Ad-hoc Relief Allowance - 2019 shall be accommodated from within the budgetary allocation for the financial year 2019-2020 by the respective Departments and no supplementary grant would be given on this account.