Jobbery and Nepotism are “great evil” which negate the principle of justice and in discrimination. Merit is crushed relentlessly in government and public sector jobs. Supreme Court consisting on three-member SC bench, headed by the outgoing Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa, declared that the rules, policies, office memorandums, etc, used to provide appointments in different grades, without open advertisement and competition, to a widow/widower, wife/husband or a child of a civil servant of federal or provincial governments, who dies during service or becomes permanently disabled//invalidated and takes retirement from service, are discriminatory against ordinary citizens.
Article 27 of the Constitution that prohibits discrimination in public as well as public sector services However the court made an exception for the legal heirs of martyred personnel of the law enforcement agencies and civil servants dying in terrorist attacks. Generally, entry in government sector employment is heavily influenced by nepotism, recommendation by political figures, rooted as it is in the prevailing culture of entitlements. The practice of using public office for personal gain or advantage is rampant top to bottom everywhere. More often than not, advertisements for public sector jobs are designed to either relatives of powerful individuals or those with political affiliations.
This practice creates bad performance and lethargic attitude of the persons so Jobbery and Nepotism. Jobbery and Nepotism are ”great evil” which negate the principle of justice and in discrimination.
Merit is crushed relentlessly in government and public sector jobs. Supreme Court consisting on three-member SC bench, headed by the outgoing Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa, declared that the rules, policies, office memorandums, etc, used to provide appointments in different grades, without open advertisement and competition, to a widow/widower, wife/husband or a child of a civil servant of federal or provincial governments, who dies during service or becomes permanently disabled//invalidated and takes retirement from service, are discriminatory against ordinary citizens.
Article 27 of the Constitution that prohibits discrimination in public as well as public sector services. However the court made an exception for the legal heirs of martyred personnel of the law enforcement agencies and civil servants dying in terrorist attacks. Generally, entry in government sector employment is heavily influenced by nepotism, recommendation by political figures, rooted as it is in the prevailing culture of entitlements. The practice of using public office for personal gain or advantage is rampant top to bottom everywhere. More often than not, advertisements for public sector jobs are designed to employ either relatives of powerful individuals or those with political affiliations. This practice creates bad performance and lethargic attitude of the persons so employed in service.
—The writer is contributing columnist, based in Lahore.
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