Candidates blame nepotism, favouritism in MUET recruitments

SUKKUR: Scores of candidates have protested against the recruitment policy of the MUET ZA Bhutto Campus, Khairpur, and threatened to go on a hunger strike if the authorities do not take notice of illegal appointments and nepotism.
The protesters, led by Arif Magsi, blamed that the appointment process was completely politically motivated. They claimed that Rabia Kharal, Salim Mangi and others were appointed on political references. The protesters also claimed that Perwaiz Phull, the son of the head of Civil Department Atta Muhammad Phul, was appointed as superintendent.
The News has learnt from the sources that Pro Vice Chancellor, Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Campus, Khairpur, Ghulam Sarwar Kandhar, had allegedly given favours to political personalities by appointing their recommended candidates who had not even appeared in the written test for the vacant post.
As many as 1,400 candidates had applied for vacant posts when MUET Shaheed ZA Bhutto Campus advertised the vacancies in newspapers. The scrutinising committee had issued written test letters to around 930 candidates while around 780 candidates had appeared in the written test in November 2014.
Sources said that Nadia Sammo who did not even appear in the written test was issued an appointment letter as BPS-16 Office Superintendent by PVC Ghulam Sarwar Kandhar.
Sources claimed that the PVC also appointed his five relatives including his nephew Arif Asghar Kandhar and Afzal Kandhar in BPS-14, Ahsanullah, Rehmatullah Kandhar and three others. Meanwhile, PVC MUET ZA Bhutto Campus Ghulam Sarwar Kandhar told The News that the prescribed policy of passing marks for the already working contractual employees was 40 percent while for regular employees there was a policy of 50 percent passing marks, so the above-mentioned cases were not related to regular candidates.