Female teachers seek PM's intervention for rectification in their service structure.

ISLAMABAD -- Junior teachers serving in the Islamabad Model Colleges under the Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) have sought Prime Minister's intervention for rectifying their service structure according to the four tier promotion formula, granting them their due right of timely promotion and ending discrimination.

According to an official source, upgradation of 258 junior teachers of BPS-16 as Senior Teachers of BPS-17 on January 1, 2011 although provided them a sigh of relief but disrupted their service structure (4-tier promotion formula).

As per the 4-tier promotion formula, the teachers of various grades are inducted in the colleges with a prescribed ratio i.e. 1% of the total teachers are placed in grade 20, 15% are in grade 19, 34 % in grade 18 and 50% of the total teachers are in grade 17.

However, with the upgradation of 258 teachers in grade 17 in 2011, the symmetry of their service structure was jumbled up which needs to be rectified for readjusting the total strength of the teachers according to the prescribed ratio of the 4-tier formula.

The existing total posts of teachers in the junior sections of model colleges are 401 out of which 340 posts are of grade 17, 43 of grade 18, 17 of grade 17 and only one post is of grade 20.

If these posts are readjusted according to the 4-tier formula, among all the 401 posts, 201 posts will be of grade 17, 136 will be of grade 18, 60 posts will be of grade 17 and only 4 posts will be of grade 20. Thus, by increasing the number of posts in the upper slots, the teachers will get rapid promotion.

The source revealed that the matter of correction of the ratio is held up with FDE and Finance Division.

Due to the disordered service structure, most of the lady teachers of grade 18 and 19 are hardly promoted to the next grade; therefore, they are reaching their superannuation in the same grade while the teachers in grade 17 are stuck in the same grade.

The teachers of junior sections have to wait for their turn of promotion...