Islamabad Model Colleges teachers demand regularisation
Islamabad: Hundreds of lecturers of Islamabad Model Colleges took out a protest rally in front of Parliament House for regularisation of their services according to the court orders Tuesday. Male and female teachers from 20 model colleges of the Capital marched from Radio Pakistan building towards the Parliament House.
Carrying placards and banners they were demanding their regularisation through an executive order without the involvement of Federal Public Service Commission (FPSC).
The teachers informed that seats were available but despite it 60 per cent lecturers and teachers have been working on daily wages with only Rs 6,000 salary. "On the other hand, regular teacher in same scales have been getting huge salaries and facilities. But the contract junior lady teachers and lecturershave been working on the same salary for a decade without any benefits".
One of the lecturers, Hafeez, told TheNation that the lecturers and teachers had moved the court and the Islamabad High Court in different writ petitions filed by various teachers, had ordered the Ministry of Education to regularise the lecturers and teachers but, so far, the ministry has failed to implement any of the court orders.
"The lecturers were appointed in BPS-17 and junior lady teachers in BPS-16 on daily wages in different model educational institutions of Islamabad since 1997 by the principals of their respective institutions, working under the control of Ministry of Education. But they have not been regularised despite the commitments made by the politicians and the court orders. It is clear discrimination and the non-regularisation is causing demoralisation of the teaching staff".
They demanded of a democratic government to regularise all the teachers irrespective of their categorisation working on ad hoc, daily wages and on contract basis against regular posts as the Overseas Pakistanis Foundation regularised their contractual teachers working at OPF Colleges.
Their demands written on placards included the implementation of court orders. They also condemned the unjust policies of Federal Directorate of Education. They rejected the involvement of FPSC in filling the posts of B-16 and B-17. As the recruitment to these posts are made on open merit and on quota basis and most of the teachers have become overage after the experience of many years and stand ineligible for apply afresh. The Nation
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