Sindh Education Minister Saeed Ghani and Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah separately urged on Tuesday the principals staging a sit-in outside the Sindh Assembly to end the protest, return to their jobs and appear in a Sindh Public Service Commission (SPSC) exam to retain their posts.
In a video statement, Ghani asked the principals to fight their battle for regularisation in the court.
He said the Sindh government had requested the Sindh High Court (SHC) chief justice to constitute a bench to review the contradictory rulings of the SHC's Karachi and Hyderabad benches on the matter.
"Besides, the principals have also approached the Supreme Court on the matter and we will fully implement whatever the court decides," he assured.
He maintained that while the Sindh government was ready to regularise the principals but could not do so due to contradictory court rulings.
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"On one hand, the Karachi bench directs that the principals be removed from their posts and new persons be hired on them after sitting an SPSC exam… and on the other hand, the Hyderabad bench rules against their dismissal and withholding their salaries," the minister said.
Separately, CM Murad, while speaking to media persons at Quaid's Mazar, maintained that it was the court's decision that the principals be regularised via the SPSC.
"However, neither they [the principals] are ready to sit the SPSC exam, nor going back to work," he said, expressing fear that the extension of their contracts for six months might be in contempt of the court.
The CM urged the principals to end the protest and appear in the SPSC exam for regularisation.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 24th, 2021.
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