PESHAWAR, March 27: All Pakistan Clerks Association (Apca) has demanded of the NWFP government to dispose of promotion cases of 1,300 employees to adjust surplus pool staff in the province.

In a statement issued on Thursday Apca president Mohammad Aslam Khan said that Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani had issued directives to adjust the employees in the surplus pool.

Mr Khan suggested that the government should dispose off the promotion cases before April 30 and adjust the surplus pool employees against the vacant posts. He said that over 6,000 posts were lying vacant in various provincial departments.

The Apca chief said that forestry department had sent 450 employees to the surplus pool of which 347 employees had been adjusted in other departments.

Claiming that many departments were short of staff he said that the government should re-adjust the surplus pool employees.

Mr Khan said that Apca had constituted a committee to meet provincial secretaries to speed up promotion cases in their respective departments.