SHANGLA: Young Teachers Association (YTA), Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, has demanded of the Elementary and Secondary Education Department to regularise the services of ad hoc teachers recruited from 2018 to 2020.

The demand was raised on Friday during a meeting of the teachers in Alpuri where the YTA’s provincial president Attaur Rehman was the chief guest. Scores of young teachers from across Shangla district were present.

Speaking on the occasion, Mr Rehman said that the government was using delaying tactics in regularisation of thousands of teachers who were recruited by the KP education department in 2018, 2019 and 2020.

“We have been demanding regularisation of these teachers and seniority from the date of their recruitment besides including them in transfer policy,” he said.

YTA Shangla president Ashaf Ahmad said that salary increment and promotion from the date of recruitment were also among their demands.

He said that 467 teachers were recruited by the education department from 2018 to 2020 only in Shangla, but none of them had been regularised.

He said that the government should immediately include the ad hoc teachers in the transfer policy so they could serve at the nearest stations.

The speakers warned to start agitation if the government ignored their genuine demands.

Published in Dawn, January 9th, 2022