PESHAWAR
Community School Teachers, mostly female, protested outside the Peshawar Press Club (PPC) on Wednesday.
This was the first major protest by the community schools teachers working across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) demanding a policy toward regularization of nearly 3000 teaching staff mostly female.
The protesters said that in KP nearly 3000 teachers of 2270 the communities schools have working on fixed pay for the last seven years, adding that the provincial government neither regularize their services nor pay them regularly.
Talking to reporters, the protesters said that KP government has planned to regularize all NTS teachers of the province and devise a new service structure for them, however, the schools established under Elementary and Secondary Education (ESE) have been totally sidelined. Due to lack of job security and low pays their family and social life had been in great financial and mental distress for years.
We have been working on small fixed salary and paying school rent electricity bills and others expenses out of our own, they said.
The protesters collectively made an appeal to Chief Minister Mahmood Khan, Minister for Education Shahram Khan Taraki and Minister for Finance Taimur Saleem Jhagra for regularization of their services as Primary School Teacher (PST) and release their pending salaries as soon as possible.
It is pertinent to mention here that around 222650 girls and boys students learning at the community schools across the KP.
