Non-teaching staff working on daily wages in educational
institutions affiliated with Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) on Tuesday staged a protest demonstration to press the authorities concerned to regularise them. Around 454 non-teaching staff of Grade 1-16 serving at various model colleges and schools have been waiting for years for regularisation of their services. Carrying placards and banners, the protesting
employees raised slogans against the high-ups of FDE and Capital Administration and Development Division (CAAD) over what they termed injustice with them.
The CAAD is looking after the affairs of FDE-run 415 educational institutions. “Various ministries and departments have regularised their staff but non-teaching staff is still waiting notwithstanding they get meager salaries from Rs 4,500 to Rs 6,000 per month,” said Saddaqat Abbasi, General Secretary, Islamabad Model Colleges and Schools Employees Welfare Association.
He said the decision of regularisation of all government employees was announced in the meeting of cabinet committee held in June last year. “In severe contrast, non-teaching staff working on non-gazetted posts have been denied the right of regularisation. We have been made a rolling stone by the officials of FDE and CADD.”
Abbasi claimed that a list of around 454 non-teaching staff was lying with Capital Administration and Development Division (CADD) but the officials had not moved it to the Establishment Division.
A steno typist Naeem Arif, one of the protestors, alleged that FDE had delayed the procedure of forwarding of the list of employees to the CADD. He said the unjustified practice had been going on for the last many years. In this age of price-hike and ever-rising inflation, the life had become hard for them, he complained.
Arif said after they persistently tried to approach the FDE and CAAD, the model colleges director issued a notification and restricted the non-teaching staff to approach the authorities concerned without prior permission of the principals of model colleges.
