LAKKI MARWAT: The management cadre of the education department has demanded one-step upgradation and provision of other perks and privileges so that goals of ensuring effective monitoring of schools and promotion of education could be achieved.

The demand was made at a meeting held at the government higher secondary school in Tajazai on Sunday. Male and female officers of education department from Lakki, Bannu, Tank, DI Khan, Karak and Kohat were in attendance. ESED officers from Peshawar and Nowshera also attended the meeting on special invitation.

The problems faced by the officers of the management cadre were discussed at the meeting. On the occasion, a coordination council of the management cadre of southern districts was also formed with assistant district officer, Lakki, Qadeer Shah, as its chairman.

Other members of the council included Mohammad Hafeez and Ghulam Fatima from DI Khan, Rizwan and Qaiser Khan from Karak, Ihsan and Zahid Hayat from Kohat, Heran Gul and Naureen Saba from Tank, Mohammad Tariq and Nargis from Bannu and Sadiqa from Lakki.

The participants wearing black bands round their arms vowed that they would launch a peaceful struggle to press the government for accepting their genuine demand of one-step promotion.

“The government promoted teachers, clerks and employees of other departments, but ignored the management cadre of education department,” said a participant. He said the officers were the pillars of educational system but they had been denied their genuine rights.

Speaking on the occasion, Lakki assistant district officer Qadeer Shah said one-step promotion was the sole demand of ESED officers and that they would go to any extent to get it realised. He, however, hailed the government for upgrading thousands of employees, including teachers and clerks, and called for extending the same benefits to the officers of education department.

Published in Dawn January 26th , 2015

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