Hundreds of Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) teaching and non-teaching staff members have been waiting for the regularisation of their services for a while.
The decision to regularise all government employees had been announced by the government in 2010, and many departments have already regularised their employees, but teachers are still deprived of this right.
A Devolution Cell official said the Ministry of Capital Administration and Development had approved the regularisation of three lists of FDE employees
The first list had 1,100 employees and had been approved for regularisation in August last year. The second and third lists had 500 employees each, and had been approved in December. The cabinet committee had approved the regularisation of these employees, but the FDE said there were no seats and a file for the creation of posts was pending, the official said.
The official said that employees who had been working for years had been denied their rights, and the directorate was now appointing new ones.
“It is very hard for teachers working on daily-wage and contract basis to survive nowadays, we are anxiously waiting for the regularisation of our services while employees of other public departments have already been regularised,” said Fozia Habib, a teacher at local college.
Umer Shah, another teacher at a local college, said that he had been working at a model college for many years on a daily-wage basis and got a meagre salary which was not sufficient to meet his living expenses.
FDE Director Model Colleges Tariq Masood said the employees’ files were still being processed for regularisation. The FDE had forwarded the lists to the relevant authority so the employees could be regularised on time, he said.
