Paramedic promotions: PHC summons secretaries of home and tribal affairs, finance
Asks them to clarify why prison health officials have not received promotion orders.
File photo of Peshawar High Court. PHOTO: FILE
PESHAWAR:
The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Tuesday summoned secretaries of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Home and Tribal Affairs and Finance departments to explain why they failed to issue promotion orders for prison health staff.
A division bench, comprising Justice Malik Manzoor Hussain and Justice Ikramullah Khan, issued the summons after it was informed relevant officials failed to issue the promotion orders of health workers at prisons.
Muhammad Farooq Afridi, counsel of petitioner Sher Zada, informed the court an order was issued on May 10, 2006 by the then Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal government to promote health employees from BPS-5 to 9 and from 9 to 16. However, these orders were not carried out for those working in K-P prisons.
The bench then inquired why relevant officials do not appear to clarify their positions regarding the delay in promotions and risk contempt of court.
After hearing arguments from both sides, the bench issued the summons with warnings to the secretaries of the home and finance departments to appear before the court at the next hearing on September 11.
Sher Zada, a pharmacy technician at Peshawar Central Prison, told the media there are 75 paramedical staff members in various prisons across the province who are still waiting for promotion orders since 2006.
“The chief secretary has approved the summary but now officials in these two departments are using delaying tactics and increasing our problems.”
Zada added the PHC directed relevant departments in a judgment on January 29, 2012 to issue the order but employees are still waiting.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 21st, 2013.
The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Tuesday summoned secretaries of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Home and Tribal Affairs and Finance departments to explain why they failed to issue promotion orders for prison health staff.
A division bench, comprising Justice Malik Manzoor Hussain and Justice Ikramullah Khan, issued the summons after it was informed relevant officials failed to issue the promotion orders of health workers at prisons.
Muhammad Farooq Afridi, counsel of petitioner Sher Zada, informed the court an order was issued on May 10, 2006 by the then Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal government to promote health employees from BPS-5 to 9 and from 9 to 16. However, these orders were not carried out for those working in K-P prisons.
The bench then inquired why relevant officials do not appear to clarify their positions regarding the delay in promotions and risk contempt of court.
After hearing arguments from both sides, the bench issued the summons with warnings to the secretaries of the home and finance departments to appear before the court at the next hearing on September 11.
Sher Zada, a pharmacy technician at Peshawar Central Prison, told the media there are 75 paramedical staff members in various prisons across the province who are still waiting for promotion orders since 2006.
“The chief secretary has approved the summary but now officials in these two departments are using delaying tactics and increasing our problems.”
Zada added the PHC directed relevant departments in a judgment on January 29, 2012 to issue the order but employees are still waiting.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 21st, 2013.