HED promotes 723 female college lecturers

Newly promoted assistant professors told to take charge in seven days

LAHORE: The Punjab Higher Education Department (HED) has promoted a total of 723 female lecturers to the next pay scale and a notification in this regard has been issued by the department.

The Punjab HED had promoted the female lecturers, BS-17, of public colleges to the position of assistant professors ie BS-18 throughout the province. The department had issued a notification of the promotions and the new assistant professors had also been told to take charge.

The notification read: “On recommendations of the Departmental Promotion Committee in its meetings held on 11-12-2017 and 31-01-2018 and in pursuance of approval of the competent authority, the following lecturers (BS-17) are hereby promoted to the rank of assistant professors (BS-18) in their respective subjects, on regular basis, in their cadre.”



The notification also assigns the new assistant professors to colleges where they would take charge in the next cadre. Upon promotion to the rank of assistant professors in their respective subjects, the teachers were posted in the colleges mentioned against their names in the notification.

The notification told the newly-promoted teachers to take charge of their new assignment in seven days after receiving the notification. It also warned that if the teachers failed to take charge of their new assignments, they would be presumed to have forgone their promotion and they shall stand superseded effect of which shall be for three years, as defined in clause 24 of the Promotion Policy, 2010.

The HED has accelerated the process of hiring, promotions and posting of college teachers in recent months and the promotion of female lecturers is part of this ongoing process.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 22^nd, 2018.