Eight months on, promoted officers of KP education dept await posting.

Byline: Mohammad Ashfaq

PESHAWAR -- Nine senior officers of education department's management cadre in BPS-19 have been getting salaries without performing duty for the last eight months as summary regarding their posting against different posts has been pending in the Chief Minister's Secretariat, according to sources.

'It is strange that the teachers have been serving on management posts including district education officers and additional directors while officers of the management cadre has been waiting for their posting from the last eight months,' a district education officer told Dawn.

Sources said that appointment of teachers on the posts of management cadre was in violation of the decision of Peshawar High Court. The provincial government promoted 14 officers of management cadre to BPS-19 in May and only five of them were deputed as DEOs in different districts.

Similarly, the provincial government also promoted seven teachers to BPS-20 but did not post them despite the lapse of one year as six of them were still working on BPS-19 posts while one of them got salaries for entire year without doing any duty, officials said.

They said that such teachers were promoted to BPS-20 in December 2018.

Adviser to Chief Minister Ziaullah Bangash, when contacted, said that education department sent the summary for the posting of the management cadre officers about four or five months ago.

'The summary is pending in Chief Minister's Secretariat,' he said, adding that officers of management cadre would be posted as DEOs after the approval of chief minister.

Mr Bangash said that all the teachers serving as DEOs would be transferred to schools as the department decided that only officials of management cadre would be serving as DEOs.

Officials said that non-posting of the promoted officers and...