Former Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani had announced service structure and time-scale promotion for engineers throughout the country on May 2012. He also assured placement of qualified engineers as head of engineering departments and institutions. In November 2012, a committee of Ministry for Science and Technology had finalised the service structure for engineers of Pakistan, as per following criteria. 1) Adoption of Five-Tier Service Structure and time-scale promotion for engineers. 2) Appointment of the engineers on the technical post and placement of qualified engineers as head of engineering department and institutions. 3) Establishment of engineering academy for the professional development and capacity building of engineers. The draft proposal, which was approved by the committee, was submitted to Establishment Division, meanwhile chairman PEC Syed Abdul Qadir Shah and his committee made unremitting struggle for implementation but till to date no fruitful result has been sighted. In the US, there are 3.5 engineers per thousand of its population, whereas Pakistan has only 0.7 engineer for the same number of people. In spite of this, engineers are facing various problems such as appointment in lower grades, very slow promotion and lack of facilities/allowances. This is the reason that engineers are leaving the country for better prospects. We, therefore appeal to the Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to take necessary action for the implementation on the recommendations of the committee headed by former Federal Minister for Science and Technology. The writer (ENGINEER ABDUL AZIZ BHUTTO) is MEMBER PUBLIC RELATIONS COMMITTEE PAKISTAN ENGINEERING COUNCIL) -
Posted on: Mon, 02 Sep 2013 14:56:26 +0000