20 February 2005	Sunday	10 Muharram 1426

SWABI, Feb 19: About 600 male and female teachers of primary schools who were appointed about three month back could not receive salary due to the apathy of staff concerned.

Sources told Dawn on Saturday that clerical staff had been telling the teachers that the verification of their papers, including academic documents, professional certificates and degrees, would take some time and they might have to wait for two or three more months.

The sources said that even those who had been in the government job prior to their appointment as teachers had not been paid salaries. "I used to work as a grade-IV employee at a government college but I am also facing the problem like other teachers," said a teacher.

Clerical staff did not want to prepare separate pay receipts for them and when the verification of certificates was completed only then there was a possibility that they would receive the salary, said the sources.

The staff was not guiding the teachers rather it was employing delaying tactics. In a normal procedure, the verification of certificates hardly took 20 days, the sources said.