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| July 26, 2003 | Saturday | Jumadi-ul-Awwal 25, 1424 |
IAP concerned over delay in promotion of professors
RAWALPINDI, July 25: Ittehad-i-Assataza Pakistan (IAP) has expressed concern over the inordinate delay in the promotion of college professors.
The IAP leaders said more than 50 promotion cases in grades 18, 19 and 20 in the Rawalpindi district alone were sent to the Punjab government, but no action had been taken. Similarly, scores of posts are lying vacant in these grades in the colleges, but no new appointment has been made. As a result, there is a severe shortage of senior professors in all colleges.
Promotion in educational institutions is already slow, but now this has been completely stopped, the executive member of Ittehad-i-Assataza Pakistan, Chaudhry Farooq, said.
About 200 promotion cases of grade 18 have been sent to the Punjab government, but approval is still awaited, he added.
Mr Farooq said about 20 of these were from Rawalpindi district. On the other hand, the vacant posts in this grade are more than 400, about 35 of which are in Rawalpindi district.
Similarly, about 200 professors are waiting for a move over to grade 19 whereas the total posts vacant in this grade are more than 300, Mr Farooq said. About 20 to 25 of these are from Rawalpindi district.
In grade 20, there are about 55 to 60 vacant posts, 10 of which are in Rawalpindi district, he said.
Another IAP leader, Nasir Abbas, said the problem was two- pronged. On the one hand, promotions have been stopped and on the other no new appointments are being made. As a result, a crisis- like situation has emerged in the colleges, he said.
In every college, an average of four to five posts in the upper grades are vacant. In some areas like Kallar Syedan, Kahuta, there is a shortage of as many as 20 professors in every college, Mr Abbas said. The shortage is mostly in science subjects. The government should pay urgent attention to this serious matter, the IAP vice president said.
The IAP leaders criticized the old method of promotion and demanded it to be changed. They demanded introduction of time scale, under which, every teacher was promoted after five to six years. Whereas, under the old method, it takes 15 to 17 years for a teacher to get promoted to grade 18.
The IAP leaders said they had taken up the issue with the education authorities many a time, but, to no avail.
OUR REPORTER ADDS: President of Punjab Professors and Lecturers Association (PPLA) Mohammad Ilyas Qureshi demanded of the government should notify promotion orders of those teachers, whose promotion had been approved by the Departmental Promotion Committee (DPC) and Provincial Selection Board (PSB) in their respective meetings.
In a press statement issued here on Friday, Mr Qureshi said in its June 26 meeting, the DPC had approved promotions of teachers from scale 17 to scale 18. According to the DPC orders, he said male teachers till seniority No 3430 and female teachers till seniority No 825 had been promoted from scale 17 to 18.
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