Staff Reporter
The Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) is striving hard to improve official business and remove all hurdles to ensure effective service delivery for all its employees by addressing their long pending issues.
A senior official of the FDE told Pakistan Observer on Thursday that the FDE being the regulator of 424 government schools and colleges in Islamabad and more than 15,000 employees (Teaching and Non-teaching is facing a number of issues such as centralization of power, shortage of staff, in-adequate resources in schools, delay in processing pension cases/death cases, long pending promotion cases, unnecessary delay in processing case for revision of 4-tier structure of school cadre, recruitment rules of schools cadre contrary to fundamental right of existing staff, unjustified distribution of funds to schools/colleges, deficiency of budget under hiring, and above all absorption of the staff on deputation in its various schools.
However, in a recent development by the Government an experienced educationist Ms Zia Batool is posted as Director General. All stakeholders including Head of institutions, teachers, Federal Government Head Association, Federal Government Teachers Association and Non-teaching association appreciated the step of the government for posting an experienced Educationist having vast experience in the field of Education.
FGHA and FGTA have jointly welcomed the decision of Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training regarding posting of Zia Batool as Director General and expressed the hope that under the visionary leadership of Federal Minister, Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training Shafqat Mahmood and DG FDE Zia Batool long pending issues will be resolved.
They also expressed their relief over transferring the former DG who was least aware as well as interested in resolving the problems of the FDE staff.
