Despite Sindh Education Minister Irfanullah Marwat's pledges and promises that recruitment of primary and secondary teachers will be done purely on merit, an overwhelming majority of candidates believe that only those, having money in their pockets, will be fortunate enough to get government jobs.
Unfortunately, majority of candidates is also willing to pay thousands of rupees to anybody, who assures them that their money will not go in vain and they or their relative will surely get the contractual jobs of primary or secondary school teachers.
The start of process for recruitment of teaching staff is also proving benefiting for several other people including those involved in issuance of domicile and Permanent Residence Certificates (PRCs) and they too have extorting money for timely issuance of pre-requisite documents.
Aspiring candidates have also started visiting University of Karachi and degree colleges for obtaining their BA, MA and other degrees required for jobs and several swindlers are attracting people, assuring them that they can arrange "fake degrees without having record in KU exams department."
Several candidates, who applied for primary and secondary school teachers confirmed that they have paid Rs 25,000 to 35,000 to several government officials, people posing front-men of some provincial ministers and some political activists as first instalment for arrangement of their jobs.
"I came to know that a clerk in education department, is assuring people of granting jobs on payment of Rs 70,000. I gave him half of the money and it was agreed that the rest will be given to him after completion of job," one Ashfaq told.
He said that he was aware of several other candidates who have paid money to the said person, who claims that he is collecting money on behalf of Secretary and the Minister himself.
According to him, he had done MSc in Geography from KU and if he gets contractual job of HST in education department, it will be a great success for him.
"You see, people don't have to work in government jobs. One of my relative is also a school teacher who is working somewhere else but drawing salary from education department too," he disclosed.
Several other people told PPI that they were willing to pay Rs 50,000 to 60,000 to any "reliable" person for jobs in the education department. They said that the recruitment of lecturers clearly indicates that they will have to feed the concerned officials for getting the jobs.
Sindh Education Department had recently announced recruitment of over 12,000 primary and secondary school teachers on three-year contract, for which over 200,000 candidates have already applied and it is expected that similar number of candidates will also apply within next few days.
It is worth mentioning here that Sindh Education Minister Irfanullah Marwat, on a number of occasions, clarified that process of recruitment in the department will be "fair, transparent and according to rules and regulations".
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