100% Health allowance: Special education staff get good news
Non-teaching staff of schools and colleges of Islamabad continued their protest and sit-in at D-Chowk.
ISLAMABAD:
The Ministry of Capital Administration and Development on Wednesday acceded to jack up 100 percent health allowance of special education employees.
The employees of the Directorate General of Special Education and its allied special education centres and institutions had been on protest outside Prime Minister Secretariat for the last many days.
Finally, the good news for the employees came after Ministry of Capital Administration and Development Secretary Riffat Shaheen Qazi held a meeting with the delegation of the protesters.
“If 24 of our employees are getting the same allowance, then it is our right to raise voice against this discrimination,” said Masood, one of the protesters. Other demands of the protesting employees included 20 per cent increase in salaries, which is yet to be settled. Meanwhile, on the sixth day, non-teaching staff of schools and colleges of Islamabad continued their protest and sit-in at D-Chowk.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 14th, 2013.
The Ministry of Capital Administration and Development on Wednesday acceded to jack up 100 percent health allowance of special education employees.
The employees of the Directorate General of Special Education and its allied special education centres and institutions had been on protest outside Prime Minister Secretariat for the last many days.
Finally, the good news for the employees came after Ministry of Capital Administration and Development Secretary Riffat Shaheen Qazi held a meeting with the delegation of the protesters.
“If 24 of our employees are getting the same allowance, then it is our right to raise voice against this discrimination,” said Masood, one of the protesters. Other demands of the protesting employees included 20 per cent increase in salaries, which is yet to be settled. Meanwhile, on the sixth day, non-teaching staff of schools and colleges of Islamabad continued their protest and sit-in at D-Chowk.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 14th, 2013.