Talha committee set to take up FDE daily wagers issue

Islamabad

After the rejection of the Capital Administration and Development Division (CADD) summary on the regularisation of the Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) daily-wage teachers, Senate Standing Committee on Cabinet Secretariat led by Talha Mehmood has decided to take up the matter in the next meeting slated for August 31 (Wednesday).

The committee, which has long been actively pursuing that regularisation case, has formally asked all relevant government officials to show up in the meeting to explain their respective positions on the rejection of the CADD summary by the premier before it announces its stand on it and future course of action.

The representatives of FDE daily wagers will also be in attendance.

The Federal Directorate of Education overseen by the CADD has more than 1,000 daily-wage staff members, both teaching and non-teaching, at its educational institutions in the capital. They’ve been employed by the FDE for around eight years.

Of late, the CADD had filed a summary with the prime minister’s office for approval suggesting the Federal Public Service Commission interview for the daily wagers working in BPS-16 and above and interview by a departmental committee for those working in BPS-15 and below.

Also, it had proposed that the employees passing the FPSC interview be offered permanent jobs on the basis of the ‘one-candidate-one-seat’ formula.

However, the summary didn't sit well with the PM's office, which ordered the filling of the BPS-16 and BPS-17 permanent positions eyed by daily wagers through ‘open competition’ i.e. written test by the Federal Public Service Commission (FPSC).

Five additional marks will be given to the daily wagers qualifying that test.

The Young Teachers Association has already decided to petition the court of law for relief against the rejection of the regularisation summary.

According to an official in the know, Senator Talha, who is currently in Turkey on an official visit, is upset at the finance ministry’s ‘adverse advice’ to the prime minister’s office on the CADD summary.