KP CM agrees to upgrade all govt employees cadres

PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Pervez Khattak has, in principle, agreed to the overall upgrading of different cadres of all government servants and regularisation of all employees recruited through National Testing Service (NTS).

He was presiding over meeting to discuss different dimensions and aspects of up-gradation of all cadres of government servants of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa at Chief Minister’s House on Tuesday, said an official handout.

Inspector General of Police Salahuddin Mahsud, Secretary Finance Shakeel Qadir, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister Mohammad Israr, secretaries Establishment, Law, Administration and others attended.

The chief minister was briefed about the work done so far on the up-gradation of different government cadres posts, the regularisation of employees through NTS and others legal forums. He directed to prepare a comprehensive design sketching out proper and uniform service structure for all government employees of all cadres serving in different departments that should be brought to the cabinet.

After clearing, the design would be taken to the provincial assembly for requisite legislation so that the issue is settled once. The chief minister directed for a comprehensive sketched out design, asking the administrative secretaries to prepare a complete data to be part of the comprehensive uniform policy guidelines for legislation to settle this issue once and for all.

Pervez Khattak directed for a coherent study of the whole process for the service structure making parity and collecting empirical data cleared by the secretary committee for onward presentation to the legal forum. The chief secretary would submit the gathered empirical data within a month.

The chief minister directed to remove the flaws in the existing service structure given to the employees of different departments and prepare service structure for the employees of different departments who are without it.