The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Public Health Engineering, Fazal Shakoor Khan, on Tuesday held a meeting in his office with a representative delegation of (PHED) Workers Welfare Association. The delegation was led by the association’s Patron-in-Chief, Pir Gul Ali Shah Marwat.
During the meeting, the delegation briefed the Provincial Minister in detail about various issues and demanded to solve their issues.
The delegation said that the post of operator BPS-6-PBS in PHE department has been abolished, while the KP finance department has converted this post into operator-cum-valveman BPS-3. Therefore, a general order should be issued to fill all long-vacant posts under BPS-3.
The delegation further demanded that, in order to make water supply schemes effective and functional, landowners should be appointed on operator posts at tube well, an 8 percent quota should be allocated for all qualified diploma holders for appointment to the post of Sub-Engineer, duty timings of operational staff (operators, chowkidars and valvemen) should be formally fixed, approval should be granted for four supervisor posts at tehsil level in each division and operational staff should be deployed to make water supply schemes functional in the merged tribal districts.
On the occasion, Provincial Minister Fazal Shakoor Khan clarified that the first right to appointment on operator posts at tube wells rests with the landowner, and no unrelated person will be given preference over the landowner.
He emphasized that no irregularity or malpractice will be tolerated in PHE department.
The Provincial Minister assured the delegation that sincere efforts would be made to resolve their genuine demands in accordance with the provincial government’s policy, and that priority would be given to improving water supply schemes and addressing the issues of departmental employees.