PARC refuses to implement PM’s order to restore 269 employees

The Prime Minister’s order regarding restoration of 269 sacked employees has been flatly refused by Pakistan Agriculture Research Counsel (PARC) as its Board of Governance(BoG)has decided to re-send the case with some objection. The meeting of National Assembly Standing Committee on National Food Security and Research held here on Wednesday chaired by member parliament Javed Iqbal Warriach. Federal Secretary Ministry of National Food and Security and Research Shafqat Hussain Naghmi informed the committee that Prime Minister had already approved the reinstatement of 269 sacked contract and regular employees of PARC but his minister Mir Israr Ullah Zehri stopped the restoration process of sack employees and asked that Board of Governance should be allowed to decide the fate of employees. He said that now the Board of Governance has decided to re-send the case to the prime minister with some objections. “PARC Board of Governance has no right to roll back Prime minister’s order and i must say that the order of prime minister’s regarding the restoration of 269 sacked employees should be implemented in letter and spirit,” said the secretary, adding that the recommendations of Board of Governance have no significance against the prime minister’s order that was why he had written descending note. The committee also approved the proposed amendments in seed act, 1976 to incorporate increasing role of private sector by the registration of seed companies, seed dealers and seed processing units and to enhance penalties to curb the sale of sub-standard seed in the market.