KARAK: Over 500 senior English teachers (SETs) would be promoted to the posts of headmasters and subject specialists (SS) on regular basis and in this regard the meeting of departmental promotion committee (DPC) is schedule to be held next month.

Provincial director of education Mohammad Rafique Khattak said this while talking to a delegation of Tanzeem-i-Asataza, Karak district, led by Khairullah Hawari here on Friday.

The education director said that the provincial government had agreed in principle to award timescale to the teachers of all cadres, saying work on amendment in service rules was in progress for this purpose.

Mr Khattak told the delegation that a committee had been formed to look into the objections on the seniority list of male and female SETs and said that directives had been issued to all district education officers to display the seniority lists of all cadres of teachers on the website to remove the concerns of teachers regarding their seniority.

PROTEST MEETING: The people of Sirajkhel union council held a protest meeting and threatened to stop work forcibly on the drinking water supply schemes from Lawagher dam if it was not supplied to their area first.

They said that first water should be supplied to Sirajkhel and then to the other areas of Takht-i-Nusrati tehsil.

Residents of the area, led by local elders, including Hazrat Shah, Umar Ghani and Gul Raees, gathered in Sirajkhel Algadda to protest the issue on Friday.

The speakers said that Lawagher dam had been constructed on their land and it was first rights of the local people to get drinking water from the dam. They rejected recruitment of people from other areas of the tehsil at the dam and said that it was the right of local people.

Published in Dawn, September 17th, 2016