Say directorate has not paid them since July 2019

ISLAMABAD: Contractual and daily-wages workers of the Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) have demanded that the directorate and the government end their exploitation by paying their dues which have been pending since July 2019.

“More than 1,600 daily-wage and contractual teaching and non-teaching staff have been serving in FDE managed schools for the past seven years but they have not been regularised despite orders of the Supreme Court,” said a member of the contractual and daily-wage employees’ committee.

Committee members told The Express Tribune that they have not received a single penny since July 2019, even though a grant of Rs100 million was released in November 2019 for payment of their salaries.

As a result, these FDE employees are unable to meet daily expenses including food, fuel, utility bills and the school fees of their children, they claimed.

Meanwhile, a spokesperson for the Ministry for Federal Education and Professional Training told The Express Tribune that they have submitted a request to the Accountant General Pakistan Revenue (AGPR) to release funds to pay contractors and daily-wage staffers. In this regards, more than 200 cheques have been dispatched to educational institutions to pay pending salaries.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 16^th, 2020.