Zafran Haider Latif Rathore;
The technical people have a big role in the development of any country, but in the Pakistan, like other departments of state, Pakistani engineers have always faced difficulties. Engineers are the people who contribute to the development of the country.
Whether it is Water and Power Department or Construction Department, Information Technology or Software Engineering Department, Mechanical Engineering Department or Chemical and Industrial Engineering, engineers from all aspects of life are contributing to the development of the country. Engineers from all four provinces of Pakistan, including Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan, have always complained to their governments. Notable among them are the legitimate position and privileges of the engineers. Unfortunately, in Pakistan, engineers have not found their rightful place and no better privileges. An engineer who does a master’s and PhD after going through difficult stages in a four-year graduation course tries to master everything about his technical field. When he wants a government job, he doesn’t get a job for years. ? If he gets a job, he is forced to work under a graduate or master’s degree holder in an arts subject. Engineers are never given their place in the civil service of Pakistan, even a secretary who is not actually an engineer but has a large number of engineers working under him, which is a gross abuse of engineers.
It is a injustice Because only an engineer can have a better knowledge of the technical field, not a graduate or master’s degree holder in the arts. The second major issue is the technical allowance of engineers which, if required, has now been approved in all the provinces of Pakistan. Azad Kashmir has recently approved a technical allowance in favor of engineers after fierce protests, but it is unfortunate that this allowance is available only to engineers attached to civil services in all parts of Pakistan except Gilgit-Baltistan, ie universities and academic departments. Engineers associated to Academic Departments are still deprived of this allowance. It is a matter of great concern that the professors who are actually engineers are the ones who make the students enrolled in the universities engineers with utmost diligence and dedication and they do not get the facility of Engineer’s Technical Allowance. In other words, technical allowance is not being given to engineer professors who make engineers. The students of the same professors who become engineers and get jobs in other fields of the country get technical allowance but there are many reservations about the technical allowance of the engineers attached to the academic departments which the federal and provincial governments including AJK have to address. The Govts needs to pay attention. Engineers across the country will have to try to get their demands across to the government through the platform of Pakistan Engineering Council . Engineers will continue to face such problems until all the engineers unite under the platform of the Pakistan Engineering Council.