ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) will soon start a formal process of setting up Employees Welfare Foundation to further improve living-conditions of the University’s officers and staff.
A proposal to this effect will put before the university’s executive council for approval, this was announced by the Vice Chancellor Professor Dr Shahid Siddiqui while addressing a meeting of Officers Welfare Association (OWA).
He also administered oath of office to the newly elected vice president Sheikh Fasial Azeem on the occasion.
The Vice Chancellor also announced that working environment will also be improved in order to upgrade status and image of the University.
Welfare of the employees, he said will remain his top priority. Necessary process for providing medical and housing facilities is being expedited.
The university’s statue book is also being reviewed to ensure genuine promotion of the staff, according to their merit and service-length, he added.
During the last two years, the university’s selection board met for three times and repaid promotion were given to the deserving officers and the employees.
Departmental Promotion Committee (DPC) also had meetings for five times for this purpose. Next meetings of the Board and the DPC will also be convened soon to clear long-pending cases of promotion.
The university has recently generated rare health-care facilities for its employees including a gymnasium, a befitting playground, walking track and a child-day care centre at its main campus.
Mazhar Saeedi President OWA while addressing the meeting thanked the vice chancellor for allowing study leave to non-academic staff of the University as well.
He assured that the offices and employees would stand by the Vice Chancellor in his efforts to make the University a role-model in the educational sector.
The meeting was also attended by the University’s registrar Dr. Muhammad Naeem Qureshi.
