Teachers in Mansehra protest educational monitoring system

MANSEHRA: The teacher fraternity took to the streets here on Sunday against educational monitoring system.

“We will never accept harassment of teachers in the name of monitoring system. If the government doesn’t make this system free of ambiguities and harassment, we will launch an agitation for its permanent ending,” Waqar Hussain Shah, chairman, Education Council, a representative body of teachers, told the protesting teachers at the Government Higher Secondary School.

The teachers and principals from various parts of the district attended the protest. Waqar said educational monitoring system was welcomed by the teacher fraternity but, he believed, the system proved a complete failure and was being used to harass the teaching staff. “Our teachers are regular in duty but their salaries are being deducted by showing them absent from duty in registers, which is unacceptable to us,” he said.

He said teachers were on special duties for polio campaigns and population census in the month of March and April this year but education department deducted Rs2000 each from salaries of 355 teachers on the reports of monitoring teams.