FDE promotions: Cases of 600 teachers in grades 18,19 to be considered this week

Establishment Division has allowed CADD to decide on the promotions.

ISLAMABAD:

After juniors, it is now time for teachers in grades 18 and 19 to move to be upgraded.

The Capital Administration and Development Division (CADD) has constituted a special committee to promote BPS-18 and 19 professors at Federal Government and Model Colleges. These professors have been awaiting promotions since the Prime Minister’s upgradation package announced in 2010.

A special four-member committee comprising CADD Secretary Imtiaz Inayat Elahi, CADD Additional Secretary Khalid Hanif, CADD Joint Secretary Noor Zaman and the Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) DG was formed last week.

Since the FDE does not have a DG at present, a senior official from the directorate will attend the meeting as an acting DG instead.

The committee was constituted last week and will sit from Friday to discuss the cases.

Sources said the CADD had earlier sought special permission from the Establishment Division (ED) to look into the promotions under the Timescale formula to expedite the process, which the ED granted. Normally, promotions from BPS-18 to 19 and BPS-19 to 20 are handled by the Establishment Division.

Around 240 lecturers in BPS-17 who are working in various FG and model colleges in the federal capital have already been promoted.

This time, around 600 teachers including some professors of BPS-18 and BPS-19 and some senior teachers of BPS-17 working in various schools would be promoted to the next grade, said CADD Joint Adviser Rafiq Tahir.

He said that the committee will consider all cases that are pending and all of them will be addressed on merit. “Today we held a meeting of all the relevant directors to discuss the cases,” he maintained.

Under the Timescale formula, either seven years service in BPS 18 or 12 years combined service in BPS-17 and BPS-18 are a prerequisite for promotion to BPS-19. Similarly, either seven years service in BPS-19, or a total of 19 years of service in BPS-17, 18, and 19 is required for promotion to BPS-20. All promotions will be made under these criteria, said official sources.

However, they added that around 240 lecturers were promoted from BPS-17 to 18 on January 26, but the Accountant General of Pakistan Revenue (AGPR) has not approved the promotions yet and these teachers have not begun receiving their new salaries or perks.

Federal Government Colleges Teachers Association General Secretary Tahir Mehmood confirmed this, “Our teachers have not received any financial incentives despite being promoted to the next grade some six months back.”

Published In The Express Tribune, June 14^th, 2012.