Non-teaching staff to be hired through NTS, says CM

KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah has described his government’s policy to recruit teachers as transparent, saying that the teaching staffers have been appointed through the National Testing Service (NTS) since 2008 and it had been decided to recruit non-teaching staff through the same system.

He said this while presiding over a meeting with a delegation of the United Kingdom Department for International Development (UK DFID), led by its head, Joanna Reid, at the Chief Minister House, according to a statement issued on Friday.

Besides others, Education Minister Jam Mehtab Dahar, Principal Secretary to CM Sohail Rajput, Education Secretary Aziz Uqaili and RSU chief Faisal Uqaili attended the meeting. The chief minister said his government had taken some drastic steps, including declaring an emergency in the education sector, and as a result improvements were visible.

He mentioned that he was giving special attention to the education and health sectors. In the education sector, he said, the administration and teaching cadres had been separated, the audit system had also been developed, and special focus was on teachers-training to build their capacity.