Pakistan: Teachers of community schools seek salaries
The office-bearers of the All Basic Education Community Schools (BECS) Teachers Association of the merged area and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa are protesting in Pakistan and demanding the government release salaries pending for the last 27 months.
Speaking at a press conference on Monday, the teachers of the BECS teachers warned of closing the schools if their pending salaries were not released forthwith.They said that secretary education and managing directors of both the foundations would be responsible for the closure of schools, reported The News International.
The association vice-president Irshad Ali and general secretary Niamatullah Khan along with other office-bearers told the newspaper that these basic education community schools had been imparting education to children for the last 25 years.
They said that these schools were handed over to the province after the 18th Constitutional Amendment, adding that the schools in the merged areas were being run by the Merged Area Education Foundation and those in the rest of the province were managed by Elementary and Secondary Education Foundation.
They said that some teachers of the merged areas were given salaries for seven months at the rate of Rs21000 per month which is violation of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government minimum wage.
IBNS
Senior Staff Reporter at Northeast Herald, covering news from Tripura and Northeast India.
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