Though the administrative mismanagement has become order of the day in the country, controller examination of the Board of Secondary Education Karachi (BSEK), the most important education body, is holding the charge illegally for the last eleven months.
Interestingly, the junior officer, currently working as the controller of the BSEK, has been time and again asked to leave the post by the education secretary. However, the influential female official was giving no response to the reminders of the high-ups, Pakistan Today has learnt from reliable sources.
The sources said the female officer, after her illegal control of the charge, had tried to get herself appointed secretary BSEK, replacing the present senior most board official Hoor Mazhar.
The sources told Pakistan Today that Principal Secretary to Governor Sindh Mumtaz-ur-Rehman had with the approval of the governor appointed a grade-17 officer, Rafia Mallah, as controller examination of the matric board on June 25, 2011.
In this regard, a notification No GS/10(1)31/2011(SO-III/387, a copy of which is available with Pakistan Today, stated: “In exercise of the powers conferred upon him under section 14(2) of the Boards of Intermediate and Secondary Education Ordinance 1972 (as amended), the Governor Sindh/Controlling Authority, Board of Secondary Education, Karachi has been pleased to appoint Ms Rafia Mallah, a BPS-18 officer of Education and Literacy Department Government of Sindh as Controller of Examinations, Board of Secondary Education Karachi on deputation basis in her own pay and scale against an existing vacancy of BPS-18 for a period of two years with immediate effect, subject to issuance of NOC by Education and Literacy Department, Government of Sindh.”
However, when it was noticed that the official was of grade-17 officer in November 2011, Secretary Education and Literacy Department Muhammad Siddique Memon had instructed the officer to clear her position by showing documentary proofs with the education department. But, the officer did not pay any heed to the secretary’s order and kept holding the charge.
For this purpose, another notification No SO(G-III) E&L/PS/7-9/2008 was also issued on November 30, 2011 which read: “Mrs Rafia Mallah, BS-17 of Collegiate Wing, presently working as controller of examination in the Board of Secondary Education, Karachi on deputation basis, is hereby directed to report to Education and Literacy Department, Government of Sindh with immediate effect.”
This time too, the officer did not turn up with the orders by the high-ups and kept charge of the important and lucrative post, leaving the senior officers of the board to see a miracle so that someone on deputation could leave the charge and the board’s own official be made the controller of the examination section on seniority basis, sources added.
Under the rules of business of the Sindh government, an official, to be posted on deputation basis outside his/her parent department, should seek a prior NOC from the respective department. But this case is different as no NOC was provided to the authorities.
“The most interesting point of this whole episode is that if an official was holding a seat illegally, how is transparency and merit in such a situation possible?” one of the sources questioned.
What legal through illegal means?
