PESHAWAR: About 8,000 lower grade employees of the government in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province find themselves at the receiving end as the successive provincial governments ignored their demand for elevation of their posts, according to complainants.
Apart from fighting a legal battle with the provincial bureaucracy in the Peshawar High Court for the upgradation of their posts, the recent move of employees working as senior clerks, junior clerks, and assistants to get their demand accepted by Chief Minister Pervez Khattak and senior finance minister Sirajul Haq has again encountered resistance from the top bureaucracy.
“In reply to the chief minister’s directive to formally put up the case to him, the provincial establishment department has opposed the acceptance of the demand on the ground that it involves implications,” says Fazli Aala, the general secretary of superintendents, assistants and clerks association, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
The association’s finance secretary Shah Bakht said the establishment department had presented the case in a manner that chief minister would think more than once before taking his decision because the department had described the move prone to complications.
“All Pakistan Clerks Association had time and again requested for upgradation of their posts which were examined on their merits in the establishment department.”
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