Govt to regularise services of teachers: minister

TIMERGARA: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Finance Muzaffar Said Sunday said the government would regularise services of teachers and teaching assistants in the province.

Speaking at the concluding session of a two-day divisional educational conference held at Ahyaul Uloom Balambat, he said the government had planned to regularise services of teachers and teaching assistants who had passed the NTS test.The Tanzeem-e-Asatiza Pakistan Lower Dir chapter had arranged the conference. He said the provincial government was taking steps to resolve teachers’ problems on priority basis.

He said thousands of teachers were recruited in government schools purely on merit to overcome the shortage in the province. The state-run schools are providing billions of rupees for the basic and missing facilities, he added. The minister directed local police not to register first information reports against schools’ administrators and teachers for security lapses. He said teachers were not responsible for security and their duty was to educate the children.

Other speakers included Tanzeem-e-Asatiza leaders Mubashir Ahmad Siddique, Dr Sahibul Islam, Khairullah Hawari, Syed Jehan Badshah and others.