400 fired Sindh education dept staffers to be regularized: sources

HYDERABAD: In blatant violation of an Election Commission of Pakistan ban it imposed on government hiring, the powerbrokers are set to stage a travesty in Sindh Education Department by regularizing 400 of it’s dismissed employees, Geo News reported.

According to sources, a personage, sitting pretty in the power corridors, is blackjacking the Education Department’s top brass to re-instate the fired staffers, that too as regular ones by declaring them contractual.

It must be brought up here that back in the year 2011, these 400 former employees were appointed ad hoc for a period of six months in the Bureau of Curriculum and were duly released after the contract expired, however a court awarded them an extension of five months.

They were given their marching orders by October 2012 at the end of the extension. Since then all the 400, Grade 1-14, employees stand dismissed.

Analysts believe this sort of ban-flouting electioneering flies in the face of Election Commission of Pakistan, which is under tremendous pressure ahead of elections.

Sources added that the powerbrokers were also working on a bill that would soon be moved as well as passed in the Sindh Assembly to reinstate/regularize these sacked staffers.