Govt decides to abolish 347 vacant posts in PCP
By Mona Khan

ISLAMABAD—The federal government has decided to abolish 347 vacant posts in the Printing Corporation of Pakistan (PCP) and the formal approval is likely to be given in a meeting of the Board of Directors to be held on April 24.
According to sources, overall 415 posts were vacated due to retirement, deaths and dismissal of employees and the administration of the Printing Corporation of Pakistan while terming 68 posts necessary for the functioning of the corporation decided to maintain them.
The corporation has sent the recommendations regarding the abolishment of the vacant posts to the cabinet division and the formal approval likely to be given in the 67th meeting of the Board of Directors on April 24th.
The administration of PCP has the stance that the 347 posts are burden on the corporation due to closure of the process of letter pressing and changes in printing technology and their abolishment is necessary.
Sources further said that, these posts included one post of the Executive Director (Production) of Grade-20, two posts of 17th scale, three posts of 14th scale, 13 posts of 12th scale, 10 posts of 11th scale as well as hundreds posts from Scale 1 to 10.
The sources said that the corporation is facing difficulties to functioning due to vacant posts while hundreds of employees would be deprived of getting the jobs.
The sources of PCP Employees Union (CBA) took the position that the news of the abolishment of the posts has created sense of anxiety among the employees waiting for their promotion since long.
The CBA in a letter to Managing Director of PCP Tanveer Abbas Jaffery demanded to take the union of the employees into confidence before taking any decision.