Sindh government has regularised the services of 167 contract employees working as a computer teacher and laboratory in-charge in the newly established laboratories at different schools and colleges, across the province. Out of 167, some 154 are the Information Technology (IT) computer teachers while 13 others are working as a laboratory in-charge in the laboratories recently established at secondary, higher secondary schools and colleges of girls and boys.
Pakistan Computer Bureau, Islamabad and Sindh Education and Literacy Department had jointly conducted written test of some 164 applicants in 2005, official sources in provincial education department told Business Recorder on Monday. In 2006, the sources said, 164 IT teachers were selected only on merit and posted in the province, out of them 10 persons had resigned/refused to join their assignments.
They said, 15 lab in-charges were also appointed on 11-month contract basis, out of them two refused to join the assignment. Out of 13 lab in-charges, 12 were posted in Hyderabad and one in Karachi, they added.
The provincial government issued a notification dated 20-10-2008, which read as "with the approval of competent authority, the government of Sindh is pleased to regularise the services of IT/Computer Science Teachers and Lab. Incharges who are working on contract basis for the period of two years under IT/Computer Science Teachers, Lab. Incharges and Computer Labs. Project matching programme with the government of Sindh against the newly created posts in their respective pay scales".
The sources said 107 have been regularised in Basic Pay Scale (BPS-17), 13 in BPS-16, 15 in BPS 15 and laboratory incharges in BPS-7 in Naushehro Feroz, Mirpurkhas, Karachi, Shikarpur, Thatta, Sanghar, Nawabshah, Ghotki-Mirpur Mathelo, Dadu, Jamshoro, Sukkur, Tharparkar-Mithi, Umerkot, Badin, Khairpur, Matiari and Jacobabad.
However, they said, 28 other IT teachers were appointed on a contract basis for a period of 11 months on August 27, 2008. The SNEs of 406 persons including 206 IT teachers and 200 lab in-charges had been approved by the provincial government, besides Rs 84 million allocated for their salaries, the sources added. They said that the summary regarding appointment of 125 more lab in-charges was in pipeline and hoped that it would be approved very shortly.
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