I am directed to state that the Governor of the Punjab has been pleased to sanction an Ad-hoc Relief Allowance-2025 @ 10% of running Basic Pay with effect from 1st July, 2025 and till further orders to all the Civil Servants of the Punjab Government and contract employees employed against civil posts in Basic Pay Scales on standard terms & conditions of contract appointment as per details below:
2.
i) Be subject to income Tax.
ii) Be admissible during leave and entire
period of LPR except during extra ordinary leave (without pay).
iii) Not be treated as part of emoluments
for the purpose of calculation of pension / gratuity and recovery of House
Rent.
iv) Not be admissible to the civil servants
during the tenure of their posting / deputation
v)
abroad.
Be admissible to the civil servants 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 term "Basic Pay" for the
purpose of Adhoc Relief Allowance-2025 will also include the amount of the
personal pay granted on account of annual increment(s) beyond the maximum of
the existing pay scales.
3.
The above Ad-hoc Relief Allowance-2025
shall be accommodated from within the budgetary allocation for the Financial
Year 2025-2026 by the respective departments and no supplementary grant would
be given on this account.
