KARACHI, Feb 24: Sindh Education Minister Irfanullah Marwat said that interviews of ad hoc lectureship candidates, whose name have been short-listed after a written test, will commence soon.

Talking to newsmen at his office on Tuesday, he claimed that five committees for conducting interviews of about 3,400 candidates were finalized, and a notification in this regard was due same day in the evening.

He said that committees would conduct interviews on the base of five (defunct) administrative divisions of the province. The interviews of the candidates from Karachi, Hyderabad, Sukkur, Larkana and Mirpurkhas divisions would be conducted on different days.

Though call letters for interviews would be sent to all candidates at their given mailing addresses, the Education department would also advertise the date and place of interviews in newspapers, informing the students that all those who had secured 40 per cent or above marks in the written test and their names had appeared in the results sheets, already put on display by the EDO offices, should report to the special committees of the department with necessary documents, irrespective of the fact that they had received call letters or not.

Every interview committee would comprise one additional secretary of the Education department, or any other official of the same rank, one nominee from the Sindh Public Service Commission and one subject specialist.

He hoped that interviews would be completed within a month period, after which results of the persons selected for different posts of ad hoc lecturers would be made public within three days.

We were trying to observe all transparency in the recruitment process and every lecturer would be appointed against three-year contract job, only on merit, he added.

He, however, did not give any exact date for commencement of interviews, but said that a detailed schedule was being prepared by the department officials. He further informed that process of appointment of school teachers had also begun and March 4 had been fixed as last date for submission of application forms through bank. He said that about 350,000 application forms had so far been provided to banks for onward sale to the candidates.