PESHAWAR: The ad hoc teachers working in different schools have demanded of the government to regularise their services and remove ban on the transfer of young teachers.

They threatened to announce boycott on February 20 for indefinite period if their demands were not accepted by the government.

Addressing a news conference at Peshawar Press Club on Tuesday, Young Teachers Association provincial president Attaur Rehman said that about 64,200 teachers in different public sector schools had been waiting for regularisation of their services for the past many years.

Flanked by association general secretary Mian Liaquat and other office-bearers, he said that the ad hoc teachers presented their demands to education department and also held several protest demonstrations but the provincial government did not pay any heed to their issues.

The teachers, he said, would observe January 20 as black day in all government schools and also display banners at prominent places on main roads inscribed with their demands from February 1 to 10.

“In case the government does not accept our demands, all the young teachers will observe a sit-in outside Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly building on February 20 to announce next line of action,” said Mr Rehman.

He said that the teachers were recruited under Civil Services Rules 1973 but they were not given the annual increments. In addition, he said, the teachers were kept deprived of the right of transfer and posting, which was a violation of the basic human rights.

The teachers demanded of the government to withdraw the notification regarding ban on their transfers and regularise their jobs to remove unrest among them. He said that Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, before coming into power, had made tall claims about solution to problems of the poor but it ignored its commitments during its tenure in government.

Published in Dawn, January 19th, 2022