Is the education board flouting rules to benefit favourites?
By Rajmeet Singh Tribune News Service SAS NAGAR, Feb 28 The Punjab School Education Board (PSEB) authorities appear to have pushed the rules and regulations under the carpet while doling out benefits to its favourite candidates seeking regular employment in the board . Before creating the post of the Officer-on-Special Duty (OSD) to the Chairman, a post of an Auxiliary Nurse and Midwife (ANM) was converted in to a new post of pharmacist grade-II in violation of its own guidelines. Appointment of the selected candidates against the new posts were today approved at a board meeting. The post of ANM was converted into the pharmacist grade -II post despite a board decision (dated July 5, 1999) scrapping powers of the then Chairman of the board to convert any post. The powers were given to the Chairman by the board members on November 11, 1993 and it continued till 1999. Sources in the board said a woman had joined on a contractual basis as pharmacist as the post of the ANM was lying vacant.
