Parliament passes setting salaries of government official’s law

The lower house of parliament of Afghanistan on Wednesday approved the draft of setting the salaries of government officials in two chapters and eight articles.

According to the law, the salary of the Chief of Executive Officer, CEO considered 260,000 Afghanis and salaries of CEO’s deputies considered 192,000 Afg.

The law will set the salaries of Executive office staffs, deputies of ministries, members of provincial councils, governors and independent departments.

“The salary of first position is 32,500 Afg which 8.5 factor is considered for CEO,” Amir Khan Yar, head of finance and budget commission said.

While the law approved in two chapters and two articles that a number of parliament members say that the formation of Executive Office still has a legal problem.

“There has been no effort for the solving of the legal legitimacy of National Unity Government (NUG). We are setting salaries instead of solving problems through its legal ways,” Saleh Muhammad Saljoghe, representative of Herat said.

Abaidullah Ramin, representative of Baghlan said, “The basic structure of government has not presented to Parliament so far, which a textile of it presents day by day and it would not solve the problem.”

This comes as that the members of finance and budget commissions of Parliament claim that the salaries set for government officials are extremely high due to economic problems.

Reported by Abdul Aziz Karimi