ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Housing and Works has said it had not issued any office memorandum about an increase in the rental ceiling for government employees.
Commenting on a report published in Dawn on Monday, which stated that federal government employees had received a 45pc bump in house rent allowances, the ministry said that its sub-ordinance Estate Office was “currently conducting a survey of market rent rates of residential accommodations at six specified stations ie Islamabad, Rawalpindi. , Lahore, Karachi, Peshawar and Quetta”.
It said that the survey had not yet been finalized, and “nothing has been notified so far”.
Published in Dawn, September 24th, 2024
