ISLAMABAD: Justice Athar Minallah of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) will take up petitions, seeking regularisation of daily wage teachers, on Wednesday.

The daily wage teachers wanted the court to direct the federal government to issue notification, regularising their services.

According to their petitions, the cabinet’s sub-committee on regularisation of employees during the previous regime of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) in 2012-13 recommended the regularisation of daily wage teaches and other officials working in different government departments and ministries including the Capital Administration and Development Division (CADD).

The petitioners said that the Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) even directed the daily wage teaches to get their medical examination from approved physicians, and they even submitted the tests report to the FDE but they were told that the matter had been referred to another committee constituted by the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government.

The petitioners said they were still working on daily wage basis as the government seems reluctant to regularise their services.

They also produced before the court a recent judgment of the Supreme Court in which the FDE had been directed to regularise the services a daily wage teacher.

The IHC has directed the relevant federal secretaries to appear before the court on Dec 7.

Published in Dawn, December 7th, 2016