ISLAMABAD: The Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) removed two area education officers (AEOs) on the charge of appointing daily-wage employees without following the due process.

A source in the FDE said Abbas Ali Makha and Bashir Arain, the area education officers (AEOs) Bhara Kahu and Nilor, were removed on Wednesday.

The source said the two officers were accused of illegally appointing a large number of teaching and non-teaching staff on a daily-wage basis. The source said an inquiry was also underway against the officers for their alleged involvement in the illegal appointments.

On the other hand, the employees who were appointed by the two officers have been pressing the FDE to pay them their salaries.

They have been claiming that they were appointed on merit. In the first stage, they were given a chance to work as volunteer teachers and then inducted on a daily wage basis.

“The FDE officers should visit schools and check the record of teachers regardless of the fact whether they were daily wagers or volunteers to determine the fact. All those who are teaching in schools should be paid and the rest should be shown the door,” said a senior officer of the FDE on the condition of anonymity.

He said Mustafa Qureshi had been made the new AEO Nilor and Fazle Mola has been given the charge of Bhara Kahu.

Published in Dawn, April 2nd, 2015

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