According to the college education department there were 11311 sanctioned posts of lecturers from grade BS-17 to BS-20 against which 7699 are working and 2676 position are vacant.
Karachi
The provincial cabinet, which met under the chairmanship of Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah here at CM House on Thursday, decided appointing 1500 subject specialists in college education department of province.
Minister Education Syed Sardar Shah told the cabinet that the college education department was facing two types of acute shortages of teaching staff – non- availability of teaching staff in particular subject in many colleges and general shortages in rural areas due to different reasons.
The minister said the dearth of college teachers was owing to non-filling of 20 percent seats through SPSC, reserved for direct induction in grades BPS-18, 19, 20, as per the recruitment rules; usual lengthy process of recruitment through SPSC; general tendency of transfer from rural to urban, near to home, administrative posts, deputations etc. and general exit from service due to retirements, resignations, deaths etc.
According to the college education department there were 11311 sanctioned posts of lecturers from grade BS-17 to BS-20 against which 7699 are working and 2676 position are vacant, of them 20 percent or 914 are to be filled through direct induction and 3590 are clear vacancies and have to be filled to make the colleges functioning properly.
Sardar Shah, sharing the vacancy position, said that there were 65 vacancies of English teacher/lecturer, 90 Urdu, 40 chemistry, 36 physics, 70 Botany, 69 Zoology, 177 Pakistan studies and 134 Islamic studies.
He said that just to test the acute shortage of teaching staff in various colleges, especially in the far-flung areas of the province, the policy of College Teaching Intern (CTI) would be feasible to fill the existing gap by selecting competent and meritorious candidates.
The cabinet after detailed discussion approved appointment of 1500 ‘college, district-specific, non-transferable `subject specialists/teachers’ at a monthly stipend of Rs.60000 per month for seven months under College Teaching Interns Program me 2021. (PR)
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