Islamabad: The process of enactment of rules for promotion of SST teachers serving in federal educational institutions stands suspended due to incompetence and negligence on part of Federal Ministry for Capital Administration and Development Division depriving the teachers of their due right of promotion.
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According to media reports, around 1400 teachers serving in Grade 17 have been awaiting promotions for the t seven years. For want of rules, the problems of filling in 600 vacant posts of teachers, promotion of teahchers and other departmental issues are being faced.
Several teachers have been retired without being promoted and the remaining have appealed to concerned authorities to take steps for granting promotion to them before their retirement.
According to sources, blue-eyed persons were hired on older posts instead of creating new one under the banner of Prime Minister Reforms Program, therefore, the deserving teachers remained deprived-of promotions, after Federal Government favored their persons.
The Federal Education Institutions teachers have urged the authorities to devise and worked-out the rules of promotions, so that teachers waiting for promotions could be promoted before retirement age.