Dhaka, Jan. 23 -- Take-home pay packet of public service-holders begins to fatten soon as officials at the Ministry of Finance are learnt to have started the process of implementing the just-recommended new pay scale.

People familiar with the development said the work began just after the members of the Pay Commission submitted the report to the Chief Adviser on Wednesday suggesting substantial salary hike with effect from the first of this month of January.

High-ups of the interim government are in favour of implementing the new pay scale "as soon as possible", according to finance ministry officials.

"The 'Implementation Wing' of the Finance Division is passing very busy time now," says a senior official of the division, preferring a...