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Fazle Haq College Mardan NWFP employees yet to have pension

MARDAN: Despite approval by its Board of Governors (BoG) and favourable verdict by the Peshawar High Court, The Fazle Haq College is yet to grant pension to its employees.

In a statement, a retired staff member of the college, Syed Jaffar Shah, recalled that in the 32nd meeting of the BoG of the college on October 3, 1998 it was decided to grant pension to the college employees on the pattern of Kohat Cadet College, Abbottabad Public School and Peshawar Public School.

He said that another meeting held on February 3, 2000 also approved the pension-able service structure while the NWFP Department of Archives, Sports and Libraries issued a notification on the approval of the same on January 30, 2002(SO (AB) HF/2-7/2002).

Syed Jaffer Shah said 217 staff members of The Fazle Haq College went to the Peshawar High Court (PHC) on December 31, 2004 where they challenged the Board of Governors decision for not practically granting pension to the staff of the college. He said Justice Ijaz Afzal and Muhammad Qasim Jan Khan of Peshawar High Court gave the verdict in favour of college employees in December 2006.

However, the college officials were reluctant yet to implement the decision despite the court verdict and the approval of the same by the Chairman, Board of Governors and NWFP Chief Minister Ameer Haider Khan Hoti in letter and spirit, Jaffar Shah said. He added being chairman of the BoG, Hoti in May 2008 announced Rs80 million for the college employees pension.

The former staff member said colleges own deposits in the United Bank Limited (UBL) on the Bank Road here amounted to Rs 120 million. He said the college had sufficient funds from its resources to easily provide pension to the retired employees.

Unlike the cadet colleges and other two institutes (APS/ PPS), the teachers were neither entitled to 25 percent non-tuition allowance nor did their rightful pension despite the fact that the late founding principal Abdul Ali Khan had even promised them a pension-able job. His death in 1997 led to non-fulfilment of the demand of the college staff to date, Jaffar said.

It is pertinent to mention here that The Fazle Haq College like the Abbottabad Public School and the Peshawar Public School was established under the same act of the provincial government and the latter institutes had the facility of proper service structure and pension for the staff members. However the bureaucratic hurdles for years kept the employees of The Fazle Haq College deprived of any service structure and pension.

Syed Jaffar Shah added that since 2000 to 2007, 14 faculty members left their job in the college including Ijaz Khan, Ameer Sultan, Jehangir Khan, Sajjad, Hafiz Nasiruddin, Younas, Zahoor, Ishaq, Faisal besides several others and joined other institutes having proper service structure. Jaffar Shah appealed to the quarters concerned to implement the decision of employees pension scheme..The News
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