Multan
The All Pakistan Universities BPS Teachers Association’ President Dr Sami ur Rahman, GS Dr Imtiaz Ahmad and the core committee members Dr Mudassar Gardazi, Dr Batool Atta visited yesterday on January 21, the Bahauddin Zakriya University Multan.
The aim of this visit was to discuss the current issues of the BPS faculty regarding the deprivation of service structure and violation of HEC ordinance by the HEC. This violation has created a massive unrest in the career path of the BPS faculty in terms of the fundamental rights of promotion though the same is protected in the HEC ordinance 2002.
The president and GS APUBTA expressed that the BPS university teachers are facing severe problems for even one step promotion. It is a blunder that faculty is not given the due fundamental rights of promotion even they are meeting the tough criteria of HEC for so called promotion though the same is re-reappointment.
The GS further added that this process is discriminatory, cruel and doesn’t guarantee to secure the fundamental and equal right of promotion as the same is usually advertised and most often the same seat is granted to someone else that has not served the university for a single day.
The GS added that the unrest of such procedure doesn’t exist in any other department of the country or in the world.
Such blunder is no more tolerable even when legitimate provision of promotion is granted in the HEC ordinance and the president of Pakistan and the federal ministry of education also strongly recommend the same.
Various faculty members of the university attended the meeting and showed their commitment to strive for securing the legitimate due rights.
The participants including Dr. Muhammad Riaz (President ASA), Engr. Dr. Farrukh Arslan Siddique (General Secretary ASA), Dr. Amir Ismail (Finance Secretary ASA) Dr. Muhammad Usman Saleem, Dr. Muhammad Zubair and Dr. Saadat Majeed (Members Executive ASA), Prof. Dr. Muqarrab Akbar, Dr. Muhammad Umar Chahuhdary, Prof. Dr. Rehan Sadiq Sheikh, Engr. Humble Tareen, Dr. Najeeb ullah Khan, Dr. Muhibullah Shah, Dr. Muhammad Awais Dr Fawad Rasool etc., showed their strong affiliation with APUBTA and assured their full support for getting the legitimate rights with backdate benefits.
It is to mention also that HEC is not committed to seek a quick solution to the existing discriminatory policy and to provide a reliable uniform criteria inline with the intact policy of promotion for the TTS teachers and using the usual delay tactics that are no more tolerable for the university teachers.
The president APUBTA declared that if the minutes of the previously held meeting of commission on December 16-17, is not issued and the committee is not notified to revise and refine the draft BPS statutes then APUBTA may opt for other phases of protest in February.
It is to clarify that the BPS teachers are on protest since December 1, 2021 against the discriminatory policies of HEC.
The protest shall be continued until the right is granted and implemented in universities. The GS added that this campaign of personal interaction with the teachers across the country shall motivate and unite for a next phase of protest at Islamabad if the right of promotion with backdate benefits is denied and not secured in a month.
The president APUBTA showed his strong concern over the current discriminatory situation of hiring faculty on contract and ad-hoc and the process of re-reappointment which is continued in violation to the HEC ordinance though it has an equal opportunity of timely promotion for every faculty.
The delegation also exchanged views with Prof. Dr. Mansoor Akbar Kundi, the Vice Chancellor of BZU on the subject and he assured his full support for the BPS faculty.
