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Education Dept advertises 10 posts for the disabled
LAHORE, Aug 8: Following orders of Ombudsman Abdur Rashid Khan, the
Education Department has allocated and advertised 10 posts of computer lab
supervisors for disabled people. Complainant Rizwan Jalil Shah, a disabled
person from Dera Ghazi Khan, had filed a complaint with the ombudsman that the
project director of the Computer Labs Project had not appointed any disabled
people in his organisation, although all government organisations were required
to recruit disabled people against a two percent quota reserved by the
government for them. The complainant requested the court to issue directions for
his appointment at a computer lab against the disabled people's quota.
In his
departmental response, the project director told the ombudsman that the quota
reserved for disabled people was to be applied district-wise, and since there
were limited posts of computer lab supervisors in DG Khan, no post fell against
that quota in the district. In his decision, the ombudsman observed that the
project director's contention was not correct because the quota reserved for
disabled people had to be applied not district-wise, but on the total number of
posts in an organisation. He observed that under Section 10 of the Displaced
People (Employment and Rehabilitation) Ordinance of 1981, all government
departments had to recruit disabled people up to two percent of the total number
of employees. Therefore, the education secretary directed the ombudsman to
implement the two percent quota for the disabled in accordance with the
instructions issued by the Services and General Administration Department on
April 15, 2004.
In its compliance report, the Education Department told the
ombudsman that out of the 515 posts of computer lab supervisors in the project,
the project director had advertised 10 posts falling in the quota reserved for
disabled people in national dailies. The department added that project director
had received 17 applications, which were being processed for recruitment under
the rules, according to the ombudsman's directives. Daily times
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| Education News | | Updated: 22 May, 2012 |
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