ISLAMABAD: Model colleges staff, both teaching and non-teaching, continued protesting on Tuesday against nonpayment of their salaries.

Daily wage staff members gathered outside the National Press Club, demanding their salaries be paid and that their services be regularised.

Representatives of the employees met the secretary of Capital Administration and Development Division (CADD) who assured that their salaries would be released in the next couple of weeks. However, the secretary did not indicate whether or not their services will be regularised.

PML-N MNA Dr Tariq Fazal Chaudhry also attended the meeting to plead the employees’ case. He directed the CADD to ensure the salaries are paid and that they are regularized, as per rules and regulations.

Secretary CADD Khalid Hanif told Dawn that the salaries would be paid within 15 days. The secretary said the cases of contractual employees from grade 1 to 14 are being reviewed by a committee. He added, “The real question is, how to regularise grade 16 and above daily wage employees, because we don’t have the power to do so.”

Some 800 teaching and non-teaching employees are working as daily wagers at different model colleges and have been waiting for their salaries for the last six months.

Rab Nawaz from Islamabad Model College for Boys in F-11 said, “The CADD has refused to regularise our services. This is unfair and we will continue protesting.”

Published in Dawn, November 18th, 2015