The Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) will be asked to withdraw its notification for the repatriation of teachers on deputation to their mother departments, Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed on Saturday.
He assured the affected teachers and their representatives that transparency and uniform policy will be observed at all levels with regards to posting and transfer of FDE teachers.
The interior minister said he will personally take up the matter with Prime Minister Imran Khan so that this controversial notification of sending teachers on deputation in FDE for years to their respective areas can be taken back.
He said this while talking to a delegation of affected teachers who called on him in Islamabad on Saturday.
Teachers of deputation in FDE said they have been living in Islamabad for years and now they do not want to go back. Moreover, women teachers from other provinces working in FDE have married and settled in the capital and therefore do not want to be repatriated.
The interior minister assured the affected teachers and their representatives that he will play his role in this regard. He said the discriminatory use of law cannot be tolerated as such practice is parallel to destroying the career of teachers.
Repatriating some teachers on deputation to mother departments and allowing others to stay and work in the federal capital.
Rashid made it clear that no one would be allowed to destroy the professional career of over200 teachers.
The delegation leaders told the Interior Minister that those teachers, who have been forced to migrate, have been serving the federal capital for years.
They informed him that the teachers with services from five to 28 years for Islamabad are included in the affectees of the notification.
The delegation said the concerned authority interpreted the court decision as per its own interests and issued an illegal notification which has put the career of dozens of teachers based in Islamabad at stake.
The affected teachers also told the Interior Minister that their children are studying in different educational institutions in Islamabad and respective provinces they belong to have already filled positions, adding that they have no option to return to their native towns.
They said the Islamabad High Court has also ruled its verdict that no teacher would be deputed in another city away from the family.
They blamed that due to the arrogant attitude of the concerned authority five women teachers have lost the peace in their lives. The teachers further told the interior minister that only some teachers having strong references have been regularised.
Rashid assured the affected teachers and their representatives that he will present his case before Prime Minister Imran Khan and try his best to ensure a uniform policy for all.
Around two years ago, FDE had started the process of sending teachers, on deputation in the education directorate, back to their schools in other provinces.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 17th, 2021.
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