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The Sindh government has transferred around 226 junior officers, who were working on senior posts, back to their original positions.
The reshuffling in the provincial bureaucracy occurred after Supreme Court ordered to transfer junior officers working on Own Pay Scale - a common practice in government departments where junior officers, such as deputy secretaries of grade 18 are upgraded to 19 or 20 and avail all the benefits of senior officers.
According to a notification issued on Thursday, the officers who have been transferred were working in the board of revenue, health, home, anti-corruption, irrigation and education departments. Among these officials are 173 engineers and assistant engineers, who were working with the irrigation department on senior positions.
“We are preparing a list of these junior officers who were appointed on higher posts by using their political contacts,” said an official from the services, general administration and coordination department. “More than 500 such officers will be transferred soon.”
An official told The Express Tribune that the Sindh government has to submit its report to the Supreme Court. “The chief secretary gave strict orders to every department to finalise the list of these officers before April 25 so that action can be taken against them,” he said. “We have submitted the list and removed around 120 officers working in our department,” said a senior officer in the local government department. Earlier, the Sindh government transferred a large number of bureaucrats after receiving complaints that they were all political appointees. Meanwhile, around 100 DSPs were transferred on Wednesday in all district headquarters of the province.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 26th, 2013.
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