MIANWALI, July 7: Clerks of the education department go on strike on Friday against the attitude of the EDO (education).

All-Pakistan Clerks Association’s Mianwali chapter secretary-general Malik Haq Nawaz Darhal said a number of promotion cases of clerks had been pending with the EDO office for long, but he was lingering on the matter on one pretext or the other.

He said they were also demanding that the clerks sent to various departments on special duties should be called back, but to no avail.

He also expressed concern over the shortage of drinking water in the education complex for the last one week owing to the theft of the water pump. He said the issue was brought into the notice of the EDO who asked them to contact the DO (elementary), saying he was responsible for providing a new pump.

When the clerks met DO Farooq Khan, he said the EDO, being the head of the department, was competent to solve the issue and in his presence he could not do anything in this regard.

Haq Nawaz said in the education complex more than 300 clerks were working in five offices of the education department — DO (secondary), DO (elementary), deputy education (male), district monitoring officer (eeducation) and EDO (education).

The clerks on strike told this scribe that they were unable to work in their offices in this scorching heat and would continue their strike till the redressal of their problems.

They said they would attend the office regularly, but without doing any work. The EDO (education) was not available for comments as he was out of the city.