KARACHI: Chief Secretary Sindh Syed Mumtaz Ali Shah said that 7331 jobs have been sanctioned in various departments of Sindh Government from the year 2019 till now. He said this while presiding over a meeting on implementation of deceased quota on Friday. The meeting was attended by Senior Member Board of Revenue Shamsuddin Soomro, Secretary Colleges Khalid Haider Shah, Secretary School Education Ghulam Akbar Leghari, Secretary Irrigation Sohail Ahmed Qureshi, Secretary Social Welfare Abdul Waheed Sheikh, Secretary Law Ali Ahmed Baloch and secretaries of various departments.

The meeting approved 317 deceased quota jobs in 22 departments of Sindh Government including 13 in Agriculture Department, 11 in Revenue Department, 7 in college education, 31 in Health, 46 in Irrigation department, 35 in Local Government department, 133 in School Education department, 8 in Works Service, 4 in Public Health Engineering, 4 in Home Department, 4 in Excise, 2 in Population Department, 2 in SGA and CD, 1 in Social Welfare, 3 in Cooperative department, 1 in Anti-Corruption and 1 in DEPD, 2 in Auqaf Religious Affairs and Zakat Usher Department, 1 in Labor Department, 1 in Social Welfare Department, 4 jobs were also sanctioned in the food department government of Sindh.

The Chief Secretary Sindh directed all the secretaries to complete all the formalities of the deceased quota applications as soon as possible and said that the salaries of the cases which were earlier approved by the committee should be released. The Chief Secretary Sindh also directed all the Deputy Commissioners to convene the District Recruitment Committee (DRC) meeting and also directed all the secretaries to submit the details of the DRC.