ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has approved promotion of Akbar Marjan, Mohammad Azeem Zaki and Asif Ali, officers of Pakistan Ordnance Factory Board as Managing Director/Director (Technical/BS-20) on the recommendations of the Central Selection Board. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has approved modification in the existing criteria for induction of officers from Balochistan & other provinces against the posts of Deputy Secretary (BS-19) in the Federal Government. In case of civil servants of Government of Balochistan whereby the condition of 02 years in Federal Secretariat on deputation/under Section 10 of Civil Servants Act, 1973 would not be applicable in case of Civil Servants of Government of Balochistan who have served in the Balochistan Provincial Secretariat at least for 02 years in BS-17 and above. This measure has been taken on the request of Chief Minister Balochistan for facilitating the officers inducted from Balochistan province in the federal government. Meanwhile Prime Minister Gilani has appointed Umair Mukhtar as Director, in Policy De-Regulation Facilitation Unit (DFU) in the Ministry of Information Technology on the recommendation of the Selection Committee of the Ministry. Prime Minister Gilani also gave approval to the deputation of Muhammad Maqbool, PSP/BS-19, DIG Balochistan with UN Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) for a period of five years, on the recommendation of Special Selection Board. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Gilani has approved the up-graduation of the posts of Stenotypist, stenographer and Private Secretary. According to the notification issued in this regard the post of Stenotypist will be up-graded from BS-12 to BS-14 with enhancement of qualification for initial appointment from Matriculation to Intermediate. The post of Stenographer will be up-graded from BS-15 to BS-16 with enhancement of qualification for initial appointment from Intermediate to Graduation. The post of Private Secretary (BS-17) will remain in Bs-17 and will be granted BS-18 after putting in 5 years satisfactory service instead of 7 years. The Private Secretaries in BS-18 may further be granted BS-19 after putting in 12 years service in BS-17 & above. On grant of BS-19 nomenclature of the post will be Senior Private Secretary.