Administrative posts being given to teachers

Islamabad: The ban on recruitment in the Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) due to some cases pending in courts has forced the high-ups to transfer teachers to administrative posts to run its daily affairs, sources said here on Thursday.
Sources said as many as 24 teachers from various schools and colleges have so far been transferred to the administrative posts due to shortage of staff and ban on recruitment unless verdicts are given on some pending cases of daily wage employees.
They said the high-ups have pointed out in the official record that all these teachers have been transferred as a stopgap arrangement and they would work on their new assignments till further orders.
A large number of daily wage and contractual employees were recruited in the FDE, but the issue became controversial due to
allegations of favouritism and bribery and many
people moved the courts against it.
When contacted, Federal Directorate of Education Spokesman Muhammad Tahir Bhatti told this correspondent that teachers
have been transferred on temporary basis because it is necessary to run the routine affairs of the directorate without any disruption.
He said when the Federal Directorate of Education would be able to recruit the required staff all these teachers would return to their original posts.
He added “These teachers are not getting any extra pay or allowance and they are working on the salary that they were taking before their transfer to the administrative posts.”
“The existing rules allow the administration to transfer its employees to any department but despite that it is our policy to utilise the skills of teachers in the academic departments rather than using them on administrative posts,” he said.