The employees and management of the National Commission for Human Development (NCHD) is passing through an impending grave situation and the livelihood of 16,000 workers living all over Pakistan is threatened. In lieu of the 18th amendment, the federal government discontinued the provision of funds for the human development interventions.
NCHD, being the autonomous body working under the cabinet division, is being considered a devolved subject, but no provincial government adopted the Commission. Despite the categorical announcement made by the Implementation Commission that not even a single employee would be separated from his/her job, the future of 16,000 employees of NCHD is still undecided and they are not being paid for the last three months.
According to the clause 25-A of the 18th Amendment, the state is responsible to provide free and compulsory education to all children of the age of five to sixteen years in such manner as may be determined by law. Hence education is a fundamental human right according to the Constitution of Pakistan and depriving over 500,000 children studying in NCHD's community schools is a complete negation to Article 25-A.-PR
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