MTIs asked to adopt uniform pay scale.

Byline: Ashfaq Yusufzai

PESHAWAR -- The finance department has asked the medical teaching institutions to present their expenditure and receipts, protect the rights of pension of civil employees and introduce uniform pay scale for the purpose of transparency.

Last week, the finance department communicated a letter to health secretary to ensure that all MTIs present their accounts, status of human resources, receipts and expenditure every year before budget and make pension arrangements for the civil employees, who have been absorbed after the enforcement of Medical Teaching Institutions Reforms Act (MTIRA) 2015.

The government allocates 'single line' budget to each of the MTIs in line with the MTIRA 2015. The MTIs are primarily funded by the government, having a budgetary allocation of around Rs25 billion in the current financial year.

Therefore, health department may chalk out a viable mechanism for tracking expenditures, human resource status and their own receipts for the sake of transparency, according to the letter.

It says that health department should coordinate with MTls through its financial management cell to ensure that before commencement of each financial year, they submit object-wise demand for budget to provincial government indicating 'the current financial position, donations and own receipts' in line with MTIRA 2015 Rules.

Finance dept seeks details of teaching institutions' funds and expenditure

The letter says that preferably such demand should be on the prescribed format circulated every year through budget call circular. The proposals for the approval of government should be initiated under the MTI Rules 2015 to 'order special financial, medical and management audit' of MTls every year.

During such audit the department may also keep track of the posts created, abolished and re-designated by Board of Governors, specifically of those...

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