Call for induction of deputationist teachers

Lawmakers in the National Assembly on Tuesday urged the education ministry to permanently induct deputationist teachers working in different schools of the federal under the Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) under the wedlock policy.

The call came after the FDE issued repatriation orders to some deputationist teachers who had met the lawmakers, asking them to intervene, as they said, they had served in the federal capital schools for several years.

A large number of female teachers from provinces, Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan are working in Islamabad under the wedlock policy.

The lawmakers including Qadir Khan Mandokhel and Tahira Aurangzeb said that the FED resorts to repatriating teachers now and then while misinterpreting the order of the Islamabad High Court, which had earlier directed the FDE directorgeneral to listen to teachers individually and facilitate them under the wedlock policy and humanitarian grounds.

The lawmakers said that most of the teachers have served in FDE school for a long time and they were settled in Islamabad with their families but the FDE was teasing and agonizing them by issuing the repatriation orders, which is uncalled for.

The lawmakers also demanded that the teachers, who have served in FDE schools for over five years, should be permanently abducted after getting noobjection certificates from their parent departments.

Answering the queries of the parliamentarians, Parliamentary Secretary Zaib Jaffar said that they wanted to sort out the issue once and for all and the education ministry will take measures to release the held-up salaries of the teachers, whose repatriation orders had been issued, National Assembly Speaker Raja Pervaiz Ashraf said that the education ministry must make a positive decision on the issue.