GUJRANWALA, May 24: The executive district officer (education) has dismissed six education officials for their involvement in a fake certificate scam.
The EDO also stopped the annual increments of several other employees, according to a notification issued on Wednesday.
Reports said some candidates for teaching posts were caught with fake certificates and later handed over to the police. The report of an inquiry, conducted on the order of DCO Manzar Hayat, declared some officials guilty of providing fake certificates to the candidates.
Those dismissed were junior clerk Mukhtar Ahmad, Shahid Raza, Mazhar Husain, Muhammad Arshad, primary schoolteacher Muhammad Saleem and driver Muhammad Sarwar. The annual increments of junior clerk Arshad Chattha and secondary schoolteacher Arshad Mahmood were stopped for 10 years.
The EDO censured the deputy district officer (education) office superintendent Mirza Muhammad Siddiq and junior clerk Mirza Altaf Husain and warned them that they would be sacked if they were found involved in the scam.
SAFETY COMMISSION: The district public safety commission’s complaint office was closed on Wednesday.
The commission’s performance has already come to a standstill owing to vacant seat of secretary and non-election of members.
The commission started functioning in city at district council building on Oct 16, 2004 and received public complains against the police. Source said the term of its chairman Rana Khalid Mahmood and elected representatives, Lala Idris, Chaudhry Hamid Nasim, Khwaja Tariq Javed and Perveen Sheikh, terminated on June 30, 2005 and unelected members Yasir Bhatti, Khwaja Zarar Kaleem, Ms Mehjabeen and Ashraf Bhutta on Nov 14, 2005.
Subsequently, the government nominated parliamentarians Rana Ijaz Bilal, Ashraf Butt and Ms Shagufta Anwar members of the commission instead of electing the new members and office-bearers. But they could not devote time owing to other responsibilities. In the meantime, commission secretary Usman Ali Khan was transferred and the commission’s performance started declining.
The citizen have demanded that the commission should be made active after election of its members.