KP, Elementary and Secondary Education department (ES&ED) has a well-known reputation of dismal speed just like a snail moving around a grass, when it comes to processing the mandatory workload i.e. new teachers recruitment, issuance of pay release, preparing a salary or arrear bill and above all pension cases of recently, retired servants, who are in a dire need of static flow of cash, but it hits a new low, while talking about District Education Office (DEO) male, Peshawar.
DEO (M) has always won the prize for being the last one whether talking about administration rating or ethical behavior. This office is ruled by a “Cabal”, who has strong affiliations with political parties like PPP and ANP. It is like a nightmare for the teachers, when they have to visit there to sort thing out with the pseudo-kings i.e. clerks regarding personal matters or school related issues. Moreover, the teachers always have to face the harsh and unprincipled attitude of these clerks.
In addition to this, this office is impervious to the official instructions and notification, issued by the esteemed director himself. For instance, 54 new CT teachers were appointed on 17th February, 2020 and on 3rd March, 2020, the director (ES&ED) cardinally notified vide: 4423-81 to immediately approve and provide the conditional pay release order to these teachers, but till today it has not been implemented. In this regards, numerous teachers dishearten from this halted system have lodge a formal complaint on PM Citizen Portal as their last hope. To add insult to the injury their time to process the pension cases is so slow that it takes approximately six months for a pension file to move from DEO (M) office to the finance department. During this period a retired teacher has to jump through all the non-sense hoops and loops even though he is a senior citizen. The burning question is that when will this department filled with rotten ethics and snail-pace be changed to betterment? It is high time now that the KP education minister, Mr. Akbar Ayub Khan should seriously take a notice to address and resolve these unending miseries.
