Cheated out of teaching: Man appointed by education department 193 times
Rashid Ali had sold his buffaloes to arrange bribe to become a teacher.
192 different people, apart from Ali, had received their fake appointment letters as Sindhi language teachers on Ali’s CNIC.. PHOTO: FILE
KARACHI:
The son of a peasant from Amb Panhwar village of Dadu district, Rashid Ali, still does not know that the Sindh education department has made 193 fake appointments on his national identification card.
The education department’s report, submitted to the Sindh High Court in constitutional petition D-3484/2013, maintains that 192 different people, apart from Ali, had received their fake appointment letters as Sindhi language teachers on Ali’s CNIC.
Around two years ago, Ali sold his buffaloes to arrange bribe money for the officials of the Sindh education department. The fanciful story of getting a teaching post at some public school in Karachi was enough to cajole out an Intermediate graduate like him.
Little did he know that he was going to become merely one of the victims amongst 9,500 fake teaching and non-teaching appointments in Karachi during the tenure of former education minister Pir Mazharul Haq.
After securing a post as a Sindhi language teacher, through the signatures of former Karachi education director, Attaullah G Bhutto, and the education district officers, he began teaching at the Jamia Rashidia Primary School located in Malir Kala Board in September, 2012.
“I had been performing my duty regularly since the time of appointment but the government did not pay me anything,” said Ali, when approached by The Express Tribune. He ultimately had to give up nine months into the job as there was no way a fake appointee could have received his salary.
The education department’s additional chief secretary, Dr Fazlullah Pechuho, had declared all appointments fake, stating that the teachers were appointed in violation of the rules and regulations. “The education department officials, after receiving hefty bribes from the poor candidates, issued thousands of appointment letters, while completely ignoring the number of sanctioned posts as well as the academic qualifications required for the posts,” said Dr Pechuho.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 18th, 2014.
The son of a peasant from Amb Panhwar village of Dadu district, Rashid Ali, still does not know that the Sindh education department has made 193 fake appointments on his national identification card.
The education department’s report, submitted to the Sindh High Court in constitutional petition D-3484/2013, maintains that 192 different people, apart from Ali, had received their fake appointment letters as Sindhi language teachers on Ali’s CNIC.
Around two years ago, Ali sold his buffaloes to arrange bribe money for the officials of the Sindh education department. The fanciful story of getting a teaching post at some public school in Karachi was enough to cajole out an Intermediate graduate like him.
Little did he know that he was going to become merely one of the victims amongst 9,500 fake teaching and non-teaching appointments in Karachi during the tenure of former education minister Pir Mazharul Haq.
After securing a post as a Sindhi language teacher, through the signatures of former Karachi education director, Attaullah G Bhutto, and the education district officers, he began teaching at the Jamia Rashidia Primary School located in Malir Kala Board in September, 2012.
“I had been performing my duty regularly since the time of appointment but the government did not pay me anything,” said Ali, when approached by The Express Tribune. He ultimately had to give up nine months into the job as there was no way a fake appointee could have received his salary.
The education department’s additional chief secretary, Dr Fazlullah Pechuho, had declared all appointments fake, stating that the teachers were appointed in violation of the rules and regulations. “The education department officials, after receiving hefty bribes from the poor candidates, issued thousands of appointment letters, while completely ignoring the number of sanctioned posts as well as the academic qualifications required for the posts,” said Dr Pechuho.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 18th, 2014.