LAHORE: The sit-in of the Secondary School Educators (SSEs) and Assistant Education Officers (AEOs) for regularisation of their services without the PPSC condition continued on the fourth day on Sunday.

The SSEs and AEOs are holding their protest outside the Chief Minister House.

Around 11,000 of them were recruited by the last government and the current government had forwarded a summary to the provincial cabinet about regularisation of their services without the PPSC condition.

However, the summary was not approved despite a passage of two years or so.

The SSEs/AEOs Regularisation Movement members said the school education department had conducted tests under the NTS during their recruitment and now the government wanted to conduct the PPSC examination for regularisation.

They asked how they could sit two examinations for a post. “The government had earlier sent a summary to CM Usman Buzdar but it was not approved,” they said and added that they were holding a protest sit-in and met with Punjab Minister for School Education Murad Raas who also made promises but did not take any concrete steps for redress of their grievances.

Mr Raas also tweeted a video message on social media on Friday. “As promised, the process has been started and I will do my best to move it along. My recommendation is for regularisation without the PPSC,” the minister had written in his tweet.

It is pertinent to mention that schoolteachers, including teachers associations particularly, Punjab Teachers Union (PTU), had been criticising the School Education Department for linking the regularisation of services of SSEs and AEOs with Punjab Public Service Commission (PPSC) exams condition and delaying the same.

Published in Dawn, March 22nd, 2021