PESHAWAR, Aug 7: One hundred and ten senior auditors and 28 junior auditors, recently selected by the Accountant General, NWFP, are in miserable condition as most of them have been shifted to various districts of the province despite having domicile of Peshawar, and at less salary package.

Last month, the provincial accountant general office filled its 110 vacant seats of senior auditors and 28 seats of junior auditors which were increased by 42, followed by more vacant posts for junior auditors.

Some of the newly-recruited candidates were accommodated in the main premises while the major portion of the those selected were shifted to various districts of the province where the posts were vacant for the last two years, said Ilahi Bakhsh, Deputy Accountant General (Admin).

One Mohammad Yaseen Khan, who was selected for the post of junior auditor and shifted to Abbotabad district account office, told Dawn after giving up the junior position at Abbotabad after serving just one day that he would not have been able to live on merely Rs2,418 for a whole month. Being the only bread earner of his family, he wondered how he and his family would have accommodated in Abbotabad at such a low package.

Even the senior scale auditors had a package of Rs2,819 only, Yaseen said. “I requested, both verbally and in writing, to the accountant general to let me serve in the main premises but the AG replied that there was no vacant position in Peshawar against which I could be absorbed,” he further said.

One Roohullah, who has also been selected as a junior auditor and shifted to Dera Ismail Khan with six hours of drive from Peshawar, told Dawn that as he was already 27 years old he was going to report for duty in D.I. Khan office, as he feared that he might become overage by the time new government vacancies were created.

Like Mohammad Yaseen Khan and Roohullah many other selectees have the same problems.

Yaseen and Roohullah have appealed to the concerned authorities to make such a policy that the inhabitants of the same area be appointed for the districts in which their area is located, and those who have Peshawar domicile be adjusted in the city instead of serving in other districts to save them from the numerous difficulties.