The forest department employees who safeguard the world's largest mangrove forest, Sundarbans, will get risk allowance.
The financial benefit will be equivalent of the 30 per cent of their basic salaries as per 2015 national pay scale.
Some 800 employees of Sundarbans Division (who work in salary grades from 11 to 20) will get the allowance.
Khulna Zone Forest Conservator Md Amir Hossain Chowdhury said government employees who operate in the east and west divisions of Sundarbans will get risk allowance.
The forest staff including deputy rangers, foresters, boat drivers, forest guards, water vessel staffs, and gardeners deputed in the Sundarbans range will get the allowance, he added.
Md Amir Hossain hoped that forest employees will get charged up and discharge their duties with more dedication, reports UNB.
Following a long demand of the forest guards, the government issued a gazette notification on October 23in this regard.
