Education ministry regularises 48 more officials

Islamabad: The Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training has regularised the services its 48 more contractual officials working in the basic education community schools.

Among them are 12 deputy directors (BPS-18), 24 assistant directors (BPS-17) and 11 assistant field officers (BPS-16). The development comes in line with the orders of the Peshawar and Islamabad high courts and recommendations of the cabinet’s subcommittee on regularisation of contractual and daily-wage employees, says a ministry notification.

In December last year, 58 such officials of these schools were regularised. They included one director (BPS-19), 16 deputy directors (BPS-18), 32 assistant directors (BPS-17) and seven assistant field officers (BPS-16).

Mostly employed by the ministry 10 years ago or so, the regularised officials all are attached to the countrywide 'basic education community schools' offering ‘free, flexible and modern basic education opportunities to out-of-school children and youth, having no access to formal system of education, especially disadvantaged children, girls and special children, for an equitable society’ as put by a relevant official. The project of establishing and operating BECSs in the Country was executed in 2006 and ended in 2012.