Departmental Promotion cases of more than 200 lecturers, assistant professors and associate professors of Rawalpindi division are being delayed for the last two years causing discontentment among the affected academics.
For political reasons to accommodate the juniors, meeting of the promotion committee was convened twice but later postponed. Sources said that a list of seniority for promotion from grade 17 to 19 was prepared two years ago and sent to the Higher Education Department in Lahore but the authorities in the provincial capital did not take any decision.
According to the representative body of the academics, they have decided to go to court to get their grievances redressed. The affected members of the teaching profession said that the teaching community was not being informed about the reasons for delay in promotions.