F.P. Report
PESHAWAR: The provincial cabinet on Wednesday approved time-scale for thousands of teachers of Elementary & Secondary Education Department, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa having BPS-14 and above promoting 55092 thousand teachers in the first phase. This will be applicable to teachers having 8 years of service in the current grade. The PTI government fulfilled yet another long-standing demand of teachers’ community.
The cabinet met here under the chairmanship of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister, Pervez Khattak at Civil Secretariat, Peshawar. Provincial cabinet members, chief secretary, addl; chief secretary, administrative secretaries also attended the meeting.
The cabinet on this occasion approved school-based recruitment of teachers. It approved re-constitution of Text Book Board amending its rules to broaden scope of the board. Representatives of Elementary & Higher Education and Finance departments have been given representation in the board to further strengthen role of the board.
The cabinet also approved in principle the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Board of Elementary & secondary Education Bill 2018.
The cabinet also approved a grant of Rs.140 million for Gomal University, D.I.Khan. It approved KP Education Monitoring Authority Bill 2018. With the passage of the said bill, the status of Independent Monitoring Unit will be upgraded to a full-fledged Authority. Conversion of this project into an authority would further boost its performance.
Regulatory Authority had been established under section 26 of this ordinance, however, the procedure of recruiting the chairman and member of the authority contained certain difficulties. In order to remove the lacunas in the rules – the Higher Education Department prepared a draft of amendment which was approved by the cabinet.
The Project Management Reforms Unit informed the cabinet that so far 45 thousands complaints have been received in which 39 thousand have been settled. The cabinet was informed that 4 thousands complaints pertained to cleanliness out of a total of 16 thousand complaints received during the last four months. For solution of this problem, the unit had proposed that those TMAs would be granted more funds as a motivation for good performance and awards would also be given to their staff. The cabinet while agreeing to the proposal suggested an award of Rs.30, Rs. 20 and Rs.10 million respectively as special grant for 1st, 2nd and 3rd position holding organizations.
The chief minister on this occasion resolved that the policy of carrot and stick should be implemented in all the departments adding that serious notice should also be taken against those who failed to deliver. The cabinet on this occasion also approved the summary bringing uniformity in salaries and perks of the chairmen and members of the authorities in regulatory bodies and commissions, according to which a Grade-22 retired officer would have the facilities of MP-I, Grade-21 retired officers to have MPII and Grade-20 officer would have MPIII etc.
The cabinet also approved rules framed for the labour law on provincial level, it may be mentioned here that these powers were being exercised by the federal government before the passage of 18th amendment. Now, it is referred to as Khyber Pakhtunkhw Payment of Wages Rules 2018.
Chief Minister directed the authorities concerned that educational institutions working under the control of Workers Welfare Board should also be brought under the said Authority to improve the quality of education. It also approved the draft law for regularization of Sehat Insaf Card to ensure better healthcare facilities for the deserving patients registered under the Benazir Income Support Program.
He directed to include all deserving patients presently not registered with BISP as well and directed to devise a proper mechanism for this purpose in order to ensure 100 percent coverage so that no one is deprived of the said facility. The draft act would ensure treatment of the deserving patients on permanent basis. Selected government and private hospitals would provide free treatment to the patients through Sehat Insaf Card.
Chief Minister also directed to extend Sehat Insaf Card facility to the disabled persons and added to work out modalities in this regard. The cabinet approved a grant of Rs.1.8 billion for the Health Department.
