PPO asked to prefer daily wagers in new recruitments
Staff Report

ISLAMABAD—The Senate Standing Committee on Communications has observed that strict merit policy should be observed for recruitments in the Pakistan Post Office (PPO) department.
The observation was made by the Committee while discussing the criteria for the residents of the less developed areas of Balochistan for recruitment against vacant posts in PPO department.
The meeting was held under the chairmanship of Senator Kamil Ali Agha. Director General PPO informed the Committee that the procedure for recruitment against various posts in the department is the same as in other areas of Pakistan. he said that different posts were advertised for filling 84 vacancies from Balochistan aas per laid down criteria. The Members of the Committee were of the view that only qualifications for a post should be mentioned and that the requirement of 1st and 2nd division in educational qualifications would deprive large number of candidates belonging to the less developed areas of Balochistan to compete.
DG PPO assured that rules for the less developed areas of Balochistan would be relaxed and that in future, qualification would be mentioned in the advertisement without mentioning percentage of marks for the post. The matter was raised in the House by Senator Muhammad Ismail Buledi which was referred to the Committee.
Regarding the non payment of wages to the daily wage employees of PPO, Islamabad. It was told that all the daily wagers have been paid. The committee was assured that this prompt payment will be made in future. The daily wagers of PPO will have to appear and qualify the prescribed competitive examination for regularization.
The committee recommended that the daily wage employees should be given preference in the recruitments if they qualify the examination/test.
Chairman standing Committee pointed out some instances on such elements that earn a bad name for the department. The committee appreciated the idea of Postal Mall and called for computerization of the whole network of post offices throughout the country to facilitate the customer and eliminate the chances of corruption. It was also recommended that PPO department should come with a report highlighting the problems and issues which the department is facing so that an amicable solution could be sorted out by the Committee.
The meeting was also attended by Sentaors Naeem Hussain Chattha, Lt Gen (Retd) Javed Ashraf, Asfandyar Wali, Nawab Muhammad Ayaz Khan Jogezai and Liaqat Ali Bagulzai. Senator Muhammad Ismail Buledi (Mover) and senior officers of the Ministry of Communication and PPO weer also present.