PESHAWAR
Demanding scale up-gradation, members of the ‘All Secretaries Association Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’ boycotted duties at their respective offices across the province and gathered outside the provincial Assembly to have their voice heard.
In the provincial capital Peshawar, a large number of secretaries, working in Neighborhood and Village Councils, across the province gathered outside the KP assembly and held a protest in favour of their demands.
According to the protesting employees, they have been working for years but the government has to define a service structure for their promotions and scale up- gradation. They were of the view that the provincial government had ignored their lawful demands and forced them to protest outside the assembly.
“All secretaries should be promoted to scale 14, the quota for secretaries should be increased from 850 posts to 4212, senior secretaries should be given the status of supervisors and government should further sanction additional 850 posts of supervisors in tehsil levels, they demanded,” the president of All Secretaries Association KP Inamullah stated, adding that the provincial government meet their demands as early as possible.
Inamullah stated that the association has presented and negotiated their demands with Secretary Local Government, Director General local government and high ups of the rural development department but no action was taken to end.
He warned that if the government tried to resist, the members of the association would stage a protest for an infinite period of time until their issues were resolved.
In an effort to reopen roads blocked by the protesting members of the All Secretaries Association, police also resorted to baton charge and used tear gas to disperse the protesters.
