A parliamentary panel on Tuesday asked the Establishment Division, Ministry for Capital Administration and Development Division (CADD) and Cabinet Division to send a summary to the prime minister within fifteen days, recommending regularising the daily wages teachers, working in different government schools in federal capital.
The meeting of the Senate Standing Committee on Cabinet Secretariat held here with Senator Talha Mehmood in the chair, also recommend that the authorities should also move a summary to the prime minister for ensuring a uniform education system in capital.
The meeting reviewed the budgets, vacant posts in federal educational institutions, the performance of the institutions working under Federal Directorate of Education (FDE), the issue of daily wages teachers and the delay in timely payment of salaries to them.
An official of FDE told the committee that the directorate was established in 1967, adding some 24 educational institutions were working under it, and then 153 educational institutions were transferred to it by the provincial government of Punjab in 1974.
"After 18th constitutional amendment, it was brought under the control of CADD, and now there are total 422 educational institutions, working under FDE...there are 188 primary schools, 57 middle schools, 96 high schools, 55 colleges, 20 model colleges, for which Rs6387 million was earmarked in 2014-15 budget, of which Rs4273 million have been spent by January 2016," he added.
The committee expressed displeasure over the quality of education in federal capital. Some of the committee members questioned why the government is spending more in urban areas of the city compared to rural areas of the capital, where the condition of the schools are in dilapidated condition.
The FDE official said that efforts are on to upgrade 22 schools at par with institutions in city areas, while PC-1 for 400 is being prepared. "500 busses for the schools have been ordered, and we are also working to improve the syllabus," he added.
The state minister for CADD Dr Tariq Fazal Chaudhry told the panel that a summary to regularise the teachers working on daily wages at different schools in capital had already been sent to the Prime Minister.
He said in light of an inquiry report headed by chairman Federal Public Service Commission (FPSC), the teachers working on daily wages will be regularised after interview, as we can not flout the laid down rules.
The committee chairman Senator Talha Mehmood also said that he would personally write a letter to prime minister, requesting him to regularise the teachers working on daily wages, as they had been suffering for the last over ten years now.