clarification regarding pay protection and fixation of Teaching and Non-teaching commerce stream contract employees fall under their jurisdiction while the rest of the districts issued salaries.
Talking to The News, president of Commerce Professors & Lecturers Association (CPLA) Mirza Javed Iqbal said the commerce staff of various districts including Lahore, Rawalpindi, Multan, Faisalabad and Rahimyar Khan etc had yet to get their salaries for the last three months. He said change in mode of salary disbursement had caused problem this time and there was a need to address the same on immediate basis. He demanded the authorities to address the much-awaited regularisation of services of the contract employees.
Meanwhile, the HED authorities sealed the Directorate of Commerce a couple of days back following a complaint from some employees over alleged corruption in promotion of the teaching staff. The record of the directorate has been moved to the Directorate of Public Instruction (Colleges) while an inquiry has been initialed against Director Commerce and members of promotion committee.
Director Commerce Dr Syed Aziz Haider talking to The News refuted the allegations against the promotion committee and said some individuals with vested interests had misguided the HED authorities. He said he was pressurised by some employees to process their cases at the earliest which could not be done owing to seniority related issues. The recently posted Secretary Higher Education Irfan Ali, when contacted, said the delay in salaries to commerce staff was not on part of the department. He however claimed that the issue would be addressed soon and the commerce stream employees would get salaries before Eid.
About the Directorate of Commerce, Irfan Ali (who is also Chairman of the Chief Minister’s Inspection Team), said that office of the directorate was not sealed and only record was shifted to the office of DPI Colleges. He said the inquiry was ordered following a complaint and its recommendations were still awaited.