'Teachers to be accommodated in G-14 under 75pc quota'
By Our Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD, Dec 21: Education Minister Lt-Gen (retired) Javed Ashraf Qazi on Monday said Housing and Works Minister Syed Safwanullah had agreed that teachers' applications for sector G-14 would be entertained under government servants quota.
He was talking to media persons after attending a convocation of Federal Government College for Women, F-7/2, here on Tuesday. In reply to a question, the education minister said teachers of Islamabad schools and colleges would be entertained under 75 per cent share, reserved for government employees in G-14.
Recently, Federal Government Employees Housing Foundation has refused to accept Federal Directorate of Education's status as an attached department of the education ministry and placed it in autonomous bodies' category, which is entitled to only eight per cent plots quota in G-14 sector.
The minister said he had already directed the education secretary to immediately respond to the queries of the foundation and issue the required notifications.
He said if the issue remained unresolved, he would approach the prime minister secretariat, as there was no second opinion that FDE teachers were government employees by all means.
In response to another question, the minister said new members of the curriculum review committee (CRC) would soon be hired for the task of loading the syllabus with new and rationalised concepts, as soon as the prime minister cleared the summary forwarded by the ministry in this connection.
The minister added that professionals and academicians of high repute would be hired from the private sector for curriculum review to make it at par with international standards, at reasonable salary packages.
To a question, he replied that he would never succumb to the so-called religious pressure groups nor the off-shoots of the politico-religious parties, as far as the review of the national curriculum was concerned.
He claimed that he would work independently for the promotion of education sector and people would soon feel the results of his policies. Earlier, speaking at the 34th convocation of the FG College for Women, F-7/2, the minister said the college would soon get four additional science laboratories with high tech lab equipments.
He maintained that a new block would also be constructed along with the other developmental projects of the college at a cost of Rs12 million. The minister also appreciated the scholarships provided by the old students of the college to encourage the deserving students for showing excellent results in exams.
He urged the graduating students to develop modern and enlightened outlook, as the country could no more afford the centuries old stereotype thinking and working behaviour.
