The government had removed around 200 officers but it started a recommendation process with the provincial selection board to accommodate them. PHOTO: FILE
A few days after removing several junior officers who were occupying senior posts, the Sindh government promoted the same officers to senior ranks again.
Five jail superintendents including Qazi Nazir, Aijaz Haider, Younus Masih, Nasir Khan and Shahid Hussain Chajro are among those who have been promoted from grades 18 to 19. The decision was made at the provincial selection board meeting chaired by Sindh chief secretary Sajjad Saleem Hotiana on Wednesday.
Other officials present at the meeting included jails minister Manzoor Hussain Wassan, services secretary Shafiq Ahmed Mahisar, home secretary Niaz Ali Abbasi, special prisons secretary Dr Nawaz Shaikh and prisons IG Nusrat Mangan.
The chief secretary also approved the promotions of 20 additional private secretaries of grade BPS-16 to the post of private secretaries of grade BPS-17, and 17 personal assistants to the next grade. Official sources in services department said that around 900 junior officers are working on senior positions through the own pay scale system. The government had removed around 200 officers but it started a recommendation process with the provincial selection board to accommodate them.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 22nd, 2014.
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