Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif has accorded approval for induction against 650 vacant posts of class-IV in the Education Department and schools in Rawalpindi.
Earlier, a summary had been forwarded to the chief minister to make inductions against the vacant posts of office boy, peons, security guards etc .The schools and education offices had been facing numerous problems in moving files due to the non-hiring of lower grade staff.
A source said that over 650 seats of class-IV had been lying vacant for the last few years and around 100 employees are going to be retired next year.
