Education ministry surrenders Rs264m allocated for hiring houses

Source: The News

Date: 20-10-2010

n somewhat astonishing move under austerity drive, the Ministry of Education has surrendered Rs264 million out of the total of Rs420 million allocated for hiring of houses for about 5,000 teachers working under the Federal Directorate of Education (FDE), making it difficult for most of them to maintain possession of their rented houses. 

Sources said that the government has asked ministries to surrender 40 per cent of their funds as part of the austerity drive, but the high-ups of the ministry instead of reducing unnecessary expenditures thought it fit to deprive about 4,000 teachers of their house hiring funds. 
According to sources, a section officer wrote a letter to the AGPR on the directives of Education Secretary

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