CADD decides about FDE job regularisation issue

Islamabad

Finally, the Capital Administration and Development Division (CADD) has made up its mind on how to sort out the longstanding issue of the regularisation of the services of the Federal Directorate of Education’s daily-wage employees.

According to an official in the know, a committee will be formed to interview the daily-wagers between BPS-1 and BPS-4 to decide about their service regularisation, while those working in grades between 5 and 15 will have to clear the National Testing Service written examination for consideration for permanent job.

As for the FDE daily-wage employees serving in BPS-16 and above, they will have to pass the Federal Public Service Commission test before being considered for service regularisation on the ‘one-candidate-one-seat’ formula.

The official said the CADD had decided to relax the age and domicile conditions for these cases.

He, however, said those having degrees with third division would not be considered for permanent job.

The officials said the CADD would inform the parliament’s committees concerned about the decision before implementing it.

Currently, the FDE overseen by the CADD has 1,000 daily-wage staff members, both teaching and non-teaching, at its educational institutions in the capital.

Most daily wagers, especially those working in BPS-16 and above, rejected the CADD decision, declaring it unfair.

They even warned they would move the court for relief.

A daily-wage teacher, who wished not to be named, said if the CADD went ahead with the decision, most FDE employees working on daily wage basis would fail to get their long services regularised.

He warned those agreeing to the CADD decision would lose the right to go to the court of law for 'due justice’.

The teacher said the CADD should decide the fate of daily-wagers serving in the FDE long without conducting any test or interview as was done in the past.

“Only three-year performance and educational qualifications should be examined to decide about whether or not to give daily-wage employees permanent jobs. If this doesn’t happen, we’ll do whatever is possible from moving the court to taking to the streets to contacting the parliament’s relevant forums,” he said.