Teachers demand timely rental payment as per respective ceiling.

ISLAMABAD -- The college teachers of Islamabad Capital Territory have expressed disappointment over excessive delay in payment of their rental ceiling as well as discrimination in the assessment of the rents of their hired houses.

According to an official source, the authorities are unable to release payments of rental ceiling to the landlords/owners of houses which have been pending for over a year.

Moreover in many cases, the assessed rent by the hiring committee of the Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) is below the rental ceiling of the teachers.

The landlords usually hover on the nerves of the teachers and repeatedly demand for early payments which gives the teachers a strong psychological upset.

Consequently teachers are compelled to borrow money either from relatives and friends or the banks to pay the rent.

A lecturer at a local college on the condition of anonymity said, 'Public money is misused on fake repair of furniture, vehicles and on different false purchases every year but there is always no budget to pay rental ceiling to the teachers. Owners of the houses are threatening the teachers of eviction if rent is not paid timely. The concerned authority should come forward to address the issue of backlog of unpaid rent that has accrued during the last one year, he demanded.

Another lecturer who managed to purchase a house in sector E-17 by his hard earned money and after getting loans from his relatives said, 'I fulfilled the entire requirement for hiring a house. Covered area of my house was even more than the required area but the rent assessment committee of FDE assessed the rent below my ceiling fixed by the government. I was maltreated by the FDE rent assessment committee which fixed my rental ceiling one category below and denied the rightful privilege".

"On the other hand my counterparts in other government departments have been receiving the rent of their houses...