KMC employees to get pay, pension via online transfers

On instructions of Mayor Murtaza Wahab salaries and pension of KMC employees have been transferred to SAP application

KARACHI:

The process of verifying data of Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) employees has been started to transfer the salary and pension of KMC employees.

In this regard, on Tuesday, the concerned officers of all the departments have been called in the KMC Head Office along with the pay bills of their departments for the month of January 2024 to update the data of the employees working in their department. In this regard, all drawing and disbursing officers and heads of departments have been directed to maintain full communication with KMC payroll section, IT department and complete the data verification process of the employees within three days.

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On the instructions of Mayor Karachi Murtaza Wahab the salaries and pension of KMC employees have been transferred to SAP application in August 2023. KMC is the first local authority in Pakistan to transfer employee salary and pension to SAP application to ensure transparency in the process.

Payment of salaries and pensions through SAP application will not only improve the payment of salaries and pensions, but due to the implementation of this procedure, double salary payments issue can also be resolved.

The mayor said that with this measure, information related to any officer or employee can be readily available when needed.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 20^th 2024.