KARACHI: Sindh government has embarked on its policy of deciding the future of contract employees, placed on higher grades; while a summary regarding empowering the ministerial committee has also been forwarded to Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah.
It is pertinent to mention that the Sindh government has decided to terminate officials inducted on contract basis, and the Sindh government has a summary to CM, so that the policy could be reviewed, and recommendations passed well before the presentation of list to the Supreme Court.
Sources have informed that a summary has recommended terminating the posts of 97 contract officials from grade-16-grade-21.
Meanwhile, the Attorney general of Pakistan has summoned the list of contract officials well before 10th Feb, so that it could be presented before the Supreme Court of Pakistan.
Sindh government had also formed a ministerial committee in 2009, under the chair of former Provincial agricultural minister Syed Ali Nawaz Shah to review the aspect of contractual hiring on case-to-case basis, and had also recommended ending the contract hiring. However, these recommendations could not be implemented due to the influence of contractual officers.
It is learnt that following the establishment of this committee, all the contract officials, inducted against the merit and on external pressure, have started their machinations against the committee's recommendations. APP