Ban on govt hiring in Sindh lifted

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KARACHI: The Sindh cabinet decided on Saturday to lift the ban on government recruitment that was in place since August last year.

Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah, while presiding over a cabinet meeting, said this step would help improve the performance of the government departments as vacant positions would be filled and poverty, particularly for the youth, reduced through job opportunities.

This was the fourth cabinet meeting since Shah has taken over as the chief minister two months ago. The chief minister said unemployed youngsters wanted the government to lift the ban on recruitment.

“It is an appropriate time to lift the ban because the government is trying to improve the efficiency of all government departments.

“This will be possible when all the vacant positions are be filled on merit.”

The chief minister ordered all departments to start holding departmental promotional committee meetings so that deserving officers were promoted to vacant posts and the rest of the vacancies could be advertised though the press.

There are around 90,000 vacant positions in the provincial government set-up and its subsidiary organisations, almost half of them promotion posts. Therefore, around 50,000 positions would be filled through the selection committee and the Sindh Public Service Commission according to their pay scale.

The chief minister made it clear to all cabinet members that there would no compromise over merit.