Junior teachers working in the Islamabad Model Colleges under the Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) have sought Prime Minister Imran Khan's intervention for rectifying their service structure according to the four tier promotion formula, granting them their due right of timely promotion and ending discrimination.
According to an official source, upgrading of 258 junior teachers of BPS-16 as senior teachers of BPS-17 on January 1, 2011 although provided them a sigh of relief but disrupted their service structure (4-tier promotion formula). As per the 4-tier promotion formula, the teachers of various grades are inducted in the colleges with a prescribed ratio of 1% of the total teachers are placed in grade 20, 15% are in grade 19, 34% in grade 18 and 50% of the total teachers are in grade 17.
However, with the upgradation of 258 teachers in grade 17 in 2011, the symmetry of their service structure was jumbled up which needs to be rectified for readjusting the total strength of the teachers according to the prescribed ratio of the 4-tier formula.
They said that by increasing the number of posts in the upper slots, the teachers will get rapid promotion.
The source revealed that the matter of correction of the ratio is held up with FDE and Finance Division. Due to the disordered service structure, most of the lady teachers of grade 18 and 19 are hardly promoted to the next grade; therefore, they are reaching their superannuation in the same grade while the teachers in grade 17 are stuck in the same grade.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 30th, 2020.
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