SWABI, June 30: An adjustment and promotion committee of the Tehsil Municipal Administration, Swabi, has approved posting of over 50 employees who were in the surplus pool for the past five years.

The sources said on Saturday that the matter had been a cause for a long-running dispute between the TMA and different departments. The Swabi tehsil council at its various meetings had demanded that the surplus employees should be sent back to their parent departments.The TMA officials said the issue had burdened the budget of the municipal administration which only in 2006 had allocated Rs7.5 million for salaries of the surplus employees.The council members, the sources said, appealed to the provincial government for accommodating the surplus employees but to no avail, leaving no option for the adjustment committee but to resolve the matter on its own.

The sources said that over 50 employees had been posted in different departments.

An employee, who worked as a cook in a rest house, said that during the last few years he and his family had experienced great hardships because of the uncertainty of his job.