LAHORE, Nov 28: The lifting of the ban on recruitment in the Tevta does not promise the opening of floodgates of jobs as it plans to appoint only senior officers at the moment.

Sources on Wednesday said that the selection for the senior positions had already been made.

The ban on the recruitment in the Tevta was lifted by Punjab Governor Khalid Maqbool during a meeting at the Governor’s House on Tuesday.

The sources said that the Tevta (Technical Education and Vocational Training Authority) which has a capacity of teaching 57,500 students at its 402 institutes, had 11,000 employees at present.

It had 2,000 vacant posts but most of them would be filled according to the needs of the authority. Then a body would also review the curricula of the authority’s institutes according to the demands and needs of the local industry following which the required number of teachers in every pointed out sphere would be recruited.

“At present we are going to appoint only around 10 to 12 senior officers. And the general recruitment will be made at a later stage and gradually,” an officer of the authority said.

He said the Tevta authorities had during a meeting with the governor requested for the permission to appoint only the main officers. But the governor lifted the ban for all types of recruitments which will be made slowly, he said.

According to Tevta chairman Sikandar Mustafa Khan, the recruitment would be made by the authority by itself but initially it wanted to appoint only zonal managers, district managers and the chief operational officers.

Following which, he said, the authority would adjust staff from the existing strength fulfilling the required qualifications and expertize on the vacant posts. The fresh appointments would be made only on posts that remained vacant after the absorption, he said.

Established in 1999, the Tevta had 22 technology and polytechnic colleges, 113 commerce colleges and institutes and 267 vocational training institutes and service centres all over the province.

It was given the administrative control of these 402 institutes on July 5, 1999.

Its reconstruction plan included collection and collation of data for each district, appointment of district managers, constitution of district board of management, assessment of local manpower training needs and resources including academic, physical and human resource.

The hurdles in its way were stated to be the acceptance and recognition of its autonomous corporate status according to its law, delegation of powers to its functionaries by the government to make them operative, redeployment of civil servants and new recruitments.

It required a general manager (operations), zonal managers for southern, central and northern regions and district managers — 13, 10 and 11 for each of the zones, respectively.

Four districts in Dera Ghazi Khan, three in Bahawalpur and six in Multan divisions were in the southern zone, four in Lahore and six in Gujranwala divisions in the central zone and four in Rawalpindi, four in Sargodha and three in Faisalabad were in the northern zone.

Each of the zones had 144, 125 and 133 institutes, respectively.