Apex court order: Fate of temporary employees hangs in balance

CADD yet to decide if daily wagers, contractual staff will be removed.

ISLAMABAD:

The fate of around 1,600 employees of over 400 educational institutes hangs in balance following the Establishment Division’s letter to to remove people employed without following competitive process, in line with the apex court’s order.

Capital Administration and Development Division (CADD) is the controlling authority of schools and colleges in the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT), while the letter was issued by  the Establishment Division (ED) on January 31. “We are unable to decide what to do with contractual and daily wage employees because orders from the ED clearly state that we should follow the court orders and remove all of them,” said CADD Joint Education Adviser Rafique Tahir.

The case of over 500 of teaching and non-teaching employees, who had approached court for regularisation, has also been put off for six months.

Many employees regularised by the previous government found themselves once more in limbo after an inquiry was initiated by CADD. It was found that a arge number of employees were inducted without meeting the basic criteria for the posts on which they were appointed.

The ED letter referred the SC decision of June 2013 in which it clearly states that no non-civil servant of a non-cadre post can be transferred out of cadre to a post for which recruitment is carried out through competitive process.

Several investigations have been conducted by CADD about illegal inductees in the past one year in educational institutes but no action has been taken in this regard against the officers responsible.

Tahir stated that they had yet to decide about such a huge number of employees. Just the Islamabad Model College for Boys (IMCB) G-6/3 employs about 60 teachers who are daily wagers while there are several small colleges in ICT where almost the whole staff is on contract.

“We were hoping to get the CADD to regularise us, instead we ended up reading the notification of our ouster,” said Adnan Khan, a teacher at IMCB.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 1^st, 2014.