A meeting on implementation of deceased quota was held at Sindh Secretariat under the chairmanship of Chief Secretary Sindh Dr. Muhammad Sohail Rajput on Tuesday. The meeting was attended by secretaries of various departments including senior members of the Board of Revenue and Chairman Enquiries and Anti-Corruption.
The meeting approved 762 appointments under deceased quota (a quota fixed for the legal heirs of government employees who died during service) in 29 departments including 28 in Agriculture Department, 12 in Revenue, 32 in College Education, 93 in Health Department, 98 in Irrigation Department, 294 in School Education Department, 46 in Works Service Department. 13 in Public Health Engineering, 4 in Excise Department, 61 in Local Government Department, 14 in Population, 11 in Forest, four in Home Department, 3 in Social Welfare, 3 in Services General Administration 2 and two in Culture department, 7 in food department, 11 in livestock and fisheries. In the meeting, Chief Secretary Sindh Dr. Muhammad Sohail Rajput said that the families of 13 thousand government employees have been given jobs on deceased quota in Sindh since 2018.
The Chief Secretary Sindh directed all the secretaries to complete the applications as soon as possible as per the government policy and said that the departments in which the applications have been submitted should be completed as soon as possible and sent to the law department for further necessary action. He also directed secretary law to send a draft of policy regarding deceased quota to all administrative secretaries for their input.
