MULTAN,Feb 6th: Higher Education Department has showed its inability to verify the educational degrees and certificates of federal Government employees within the shortest period and said that it was not possible to verify 5833
degrees/certificate of employees day.Official sources said here today. Sources said that there were more than 0.35 million employees of federal Government departments and it is not possible to verify their academic certificates/ degrees in two months.It may be recalled thatPrime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has directed the Establishment Division to verify the educational degrees and certificates of all the federal government employees.The Prime Minister also desired that the Federal Public Service Commission should also ensure authenticity of the degrees and certificates of all the candidates appearing for selection in the government service.In order to curb irregularities and corruption, the Prime Minister issued the directives to Establishment Division to verify the degrees and certificates of all the central government employees.
MULTAN, Feb 12th:Field officers of Pakistan Cotton Standard Institute (PSCI) have appealed to prime minister to promote them in next scales because they were recruited between 1983 to 1991 in grade 16 but inspite of serving for 19 to 26 years they are still staying in Grade 16 and they are getting their salaries quarterly while the Government is binding to provide salaries and fringe benefits every month. In a petition to Prime Minister ,the field officers said PCI is an autonomous body under the administrative control of ministry of Textile industry, which was constituted for enhancing the quality and standard of the cotton as the cotton plays a significant role in country’s economy and main source of foreign exchange. They said that the quality improvement of raw cotton is the pre-requisite in attaining the ultimate financial earnings from the regional preface and the international market.
