After months of protests, contractual employees still not regularised
Bill not tabled in assembly session which abruptly concluded on Tuesday.
File photo of young doctors protesting.. PHOTO: INP/FILE
PESHAWAR:
Homeopathic doctors and adhoc lecturers expressed anger and concern for not presenting the bill for their regularisation in the last session of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Assembly which concluded on Tuesday.
Addressing a press conference at the Peshawar Press Club on Wednesday, office bearers of All Homeopathic Doctors and Tibbi Association (AHDTA) and Adhoc Lecturers Association (ALA) said the provincial government had assured them it would regularise 254 contract lecturers and 50 doctors.
AHDTA President Hakim Mohammad Nasir and ALA President Qazi Zafar Iqbal said they had pinned their hopes on a bill calling for regularisation of contract employees to be tabled in the provincial legislature. The promise was not fulfilled as the house was prorogued due to a quorum issue, without tabling the regularisation bill, said Nasir.
“The government appointed 50 homeopathic doctors and hakims in 24 districts of the province on contract. All these people will lose their jobs if they are not regularised,” he said adding that for many, this is the only job they have. “All adhoc lecturers, hakims and homeopaths are highly qualified and deserve a permanent position.”
AHDTA president added the Punjab government has regularised their employees and demanded that the K-P government should also honour its commitment.
For the past several months, protest of these contract lecturers and homeopaths has been a regular feature outside the K-P assembly to press the government for their demand.
The issue has also come up on the floor, however, nothing concrete has come out of it.
The last ray of hope for these employees was a private member bill from Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentary Leader Abdul Akbar Khan which was on the assembly’s agenda for Tuesday but could not be presented.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 14th, 2013.
Homeopathic doctors and adhoc lecturers expressed anger and concern for not presenting the bill for their regularisation in the last session of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Assembly which concluded on Tuesday.
Addressing a press conference at the Peshawar Press Club on Wednesday, office bearers of All Homeopathic Doctors and Tibbi Association (AHDTA) and Adhoc Lecturers Association (ALA) said the provincial government had assured them it would regularise 254 contract lecturers and 50 doctors.
AHDTA President Hakim Mohammad Nasir and ALA President Qazi Zafar Iqbal said they had pinned their hopes on a bill calling for regularisation of contract employees to be tabled in the provincial legislature. The promise was not fulfilled as the house was prorogued due to a quorum issue, without tabling the regularisation bill, said Nasir.
“The government appointed 50 homeopathic doctors and hakims in 24 districts of the province on contract. All these people will lose their jobs if they are not regularised,” he said adding that for many, this is the only job they have. “All adhoc lecturers, hakims and homeopaths are highly qualified and deserve a permanent position.”
AHDTA president added the Punjab government has regularised their employees and demanded that the K-P government should also honour its commitment.
For the past several months, protest of these contract lecturers and homeopaths has been a regular feature outside the K-P assembly to press the government for their demand.
The issue has also come up on the floor, however, nothing concrete has come out of it.
The last ray of hope for these employees was a private member bill from Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentary Leader Abdul Akbar Khan which was on the assembly’s agenda for Tuesday but could not be presented.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 14th, 2013.