Promotions: Teacher sues HED over disabled quota appointment

Dogar said HED secretary converted vacant political science posts into commerce posts under influence of the local MNA

LAHORE:

A visually-challenged university lecturer on Monday asked the Lahore High Court (LHC) to order the Higher Education Department (HED) to give him his due promotion to the post of assistant professor.

Umar Daraz Dogar, a lecturer of political science at Government Post Graduate College Sheikhupura, submitted that the Punjab Public Service Commission (PPSC) had on May 17 recommended his promotion along with 14 other lecturers, meeting a two per cent quota for jobs for the disabled. The HED deputy director (colleges) also issued joining letters to the 15 lecturers, he said, but the department did not issue his posting orders even though there had been two vacancies for political science assistant professors at the Sheikhupura college since 2005.

Dogar said that the HED secretary had converted the vacant political science posts into commerce posts under the influence of the local MNA. He said that an assistant professor of commerce had been appointed even though the college had no commerce classes or plans to start them.

He said his increment in BS-18 had also been stopped because he had not been posted as assistant professor. He submitted that the HED did not have the authority to change the vacant posts and asked the court to set aside the department’s actions in this matter.

Dogar said that because of his disability, he required help to move around. He said his four children studied in Sheikhupura and he needed their support, so he should not be posted outside the city.

He asked the court to direct the department to post him to the Government Post Graduate College Sheikhupura.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 13^th, 2011.