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PESHAWAR: The provincial authorities on Wednesday directed its training division to not grant any leisure to overage candidates who could also be shortlisted within the benefit listing.
The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa) Institution Division issued on Wednesday a set of pointers for recruitment within the division. The rules prohibit district training officers from approving any age leisure for overage candidates who had appeared for exams held lately by the Nationwide Testing Service (NTS) and FTS for hundreds of vacant posts of academics within the province. Many of those candidates had cleared the examination and had been shortlisted for inclusion within the benefit listing however at the moment are confronted with the dilemma of being overage for the marketed posts.
Prior to now, district training officers would rent those that had been overage by as much as two years, whereas the training secretary and the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa chief secretary would have the facility to permit a leisure within the guidelines to recruit those that had been as a lot as seven and 10 years over the set restrict respectively.
The training division then hires these academics on contract.
Nonetheless, the incumbent training secretary sought steerage from the institution division over the process for granting leisure to overage candidates.
In response to the question, the provincial institution division issued the rules that the civil servant guidelines don’t permit or are silent about granting age-relaxation to candidates for appointment.
Therefore, the provincial training division has now refused to grant age leisure to all such candidates who had been shortlisted.
Revealed in The Specific Tribune, March 26th, 2020.
