Stenographers and Stenotypists Upgradation Case

According to the news appearing in the Daily Jang, Rawalpindi, the case of upgradation of Stenotypists, Stenographers and Private Secretaries has been sent to the Prime Minister of Pakistan for final approval. After approval, the new scales of stenotypists, stenographer and Private Secretary will be:- 1. Private Secretary will enjoy basic pay scale (BS) 18 instead of 16. 2. Stenographer will enjoy basic pay scale (BS) 16 instead of 114. 3. Stenotypists will enjoy basic pay scale (BS) 14 instead of 12. This action of the Government is in compliance with the direction of the Supreme Court of Pakistan in the Stenographers Upgradation case. In the said case the Honourable Supreme Court ordered that the order of Service Tribunal in upgradation case of Stenographers be implemented within a month. The extract of the order of the Supreme Court's order dated 05.10.2011 in Stenographer's upgradation case is as under:- Mian Shakirullah Jan, J through these petitions, the petitioners have chanllenged the order of the Federal Service Tribunal whereby the petitioners were directed to implement the judgment of the Tribunal dated 6.2.2010 and 15.02.2011. 2. The respondents concise statement is placed on file and office memorandum government of Pakistan Cabinet Secretarieat Establishment Division, whereby according to the respondents their grievances to the extent of upgradation of the posts in accordance with the judgement of the service tribunal has been considered, however, the final order by the competent authority is still to be passed which document has been annexed with the concise statement and is not disputed one. However, the petitioners plea is that since the office memorandum has been issued only by the establishment division whereas, the opinions of controller general of Pakistan and finance division are still awaited. It is for the petitioners to process the matter immediately and to get their opinions and then final order by the competent authority. 3. In view of the above, these petitions are disposed off with the direction that the matter be finalized within a period of one month from the date of this order. All C.M.As are also disposed of accordingly. In the light of the directions of the Supreme Court the Government was under legal obligation to implement the order of the Service Tribunal by 5th November, 2011. However, the matter is still pending. Hence stenographers are planning to file contempt of Court for non-compliance of order in the upgradation case of stenographers. It is worth mentioning that the order of the Tribunal has already been passed on 15.02.2011 which were not challenged by the Government in the Supreme Court. This shows the slackness of the Government in providing benefits to the lower staff. Had it been the matter of a bureaucrat, the matter would have been resolved much earlier.