SC orders Sindh govt to issue teachers’ joining orders

The Supreme Court ordered the Sindh government on Monday to issue joining orders of 2,050 appointed primary school teacher and high school teachers within two weeks.
A division bench of the Supreme Court Karachi Registry, including Justice Sarmad Jalal Usmani and Justice Amir Hani Muslim, was hearing over 20 constitutional petitions filed by various teachers of Badin, Dadu, and Naushehro Feroze districts against the Sindh Education Department.
Education Secretary Siddique Memon, the deputy secretary, education district officers and other officials concerned appeared before the court.
According to the counsel for the teachers, the Education Department announced that it would appoint 2,050 teachers for the vacant posts of different scales, including junior school teachers, drawing teachers and primary school teachers.
All candidates were selected for the posts only after having fulfilled the necessary requirements, including written, verbal and medical tests. “They were selected out of about 375,000 candidates and despite the department’s issuance of appointment letters to them, the government has not issued joining orders,” he added.
To this effect, the court gave two months’ time to the Education Department for scrutinising doubtful candidates’ documents, saying that if government failed to conduct the analysis of the candidates and their documents within two months, then the teachers would be authorised to get salaries with effect from May 2011.