RAWALPINDI: Federal government employees with different physical disabilities have demanded that their allowance should be increased in line with the Punjab government.

A few days ago, the PML-Q ledPunjab government announced to increase the specialannouncefor its employees with disabilities from Rs2,000 per month to Rs10,000.

However, in the federal government departments, the employees with different physical disabilities are still getting Rs2,000 per month.The federal government employees said if they are given such an increase, the private institutions will also follow it.

They said the working environment for persons with disabilities was not condusive and the government should devise policies to facilitate them.