KHYBER
Teachers community demanded the educational highup to reinstate contract base teachers in merged districts, recently sacked by the department.
Chief of Tanzeem-e-Asateza Pakistan, Landi Kotal chapter Shareefullah Afridi said that on demand of locals to remove deficiency of teaching staff in the government run primary schools, the then government had employed teachers on contract through Parent Teacher Community (PTC) fund.
With provision of additional teachers, state –run schools produced positive results and the initiative also restored parent trust in the government educational institutions, he remarked.
However, he maintained after two years withdrawing the teacher’s contract was unfair to the poor students being studied in the schools and the decision spread disappointment among them.
He went on to suggest that the government should revise its policy, have mercy on the poor students and restore the contract based teachers in the best interest of the underprivileged citizens of the tribal society.
Parents and members of civil society expressed their due concern over the anti-poor learners’ policy of the government and said it would certainly derail the quality education process in the state-run schools.
They asked the concerned officials to supply needed teaching staff to the primary schools so that the deprived class of the society could get better educational opportunities.
According to the local education official, due to lack of funds, the education department discarded contract base teachers.
The service tenure of the sacked teachers was a one year contract and posting on permanent posts would be done to overcome shortage of teachers, he added.
It is to be mentioned here that including 373 teachers in Khyber, temporary services (male and female) of approximately 2122 teachers across the merged districts had been hired across the merged districts.
