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SIALKOT, Dec 9: The Chenab Rangers thwarted another two Indian attempts of fencing in Chhumb, Joriyaan and Charwa sectors near the Sialkot working boundary late on Saturday night.
According to official sources, nine more houses and standing paddy crops were damaged by Indian shelling in Chhumb, Jariyaan, Bajwat, Chaprar, Sucheetgarh, Harpal, Kingra, Bajragarhi, Charwa, Jammu, Akhor, Oori and Shakargarh sectors.
No causality was reported.
TEACHERS: The Punjab education department is considering a proposal to promote all the deserving secondary school teachers in grade 17.
This was stated by Punjab education secretary Sibtain Fazal Haleem while talking to Punjab Teachers Association president Raja Zafeer Ahmad Sitti, general secretary Taj Hyder and central secretary information Abdul Rasheed who called on him at his office the other day.
According to a PTU press release issued here on Sunday, the education secretary said the powers of awarding selection grades to SSTs had been handed over to the Punjab DPI (secondary education).
He said the selection grades to all the deserving teachers of Bahawalpur and Dera Ghazi Khan divisions had been awarded, while the same would soon be awarded to the teachers belonging to Sialkot district and Multan, Faisalabad, Lahore, Sargodha, Gujranwala and Rawalpindi divisions, following the provision of their data by executive district officers (secondary education).
The secretary assured union office-bearers that the transfer orders and show-cause notices issued to PTC teachers during the “refresher course test movement” would soon be withdrawn.
