IT teachers urge government to regularise their services

PESHAWAR: The teachers, who were recruited in the first phase of the Information Technology project introduced in the schools across the province, have asked the government to regularise their services or extend their contract.

Talking to reporters, IT teachers’ representatives Javed Ahmed and Sanaul Haq said that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)-led Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government had launched the IT project in 2014 and so far 1,170 IT laboratories have been established in different schools for which 2,340 teachers and other staff members have been recruited in three phases.

They said that teachers and other staff members were hired on contractual basis for a six-month to one-year period. The IT teachers representatives said the teachers recruited in the first phase may lose their jobs as they were informed that the first phase of the project for which they were recruited had concluded.

Minister for Education Muhammad Atif Khan had promised at the floor of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly in May 2017 that the services of IT teachers would be regularised soon but to no avail, they said.

The teachers said that information technology has played a vital role since 1990s in the education sector in the country.