HARIPUR, April 17: The provincial minister for transport and fisheries Akhtar Nawaz Khan has warned the management of private schools to follow the provincial government’s directives on minimum salary of teachers otherwise their registrations would be cancelled.

“(Schools must) pay a minimum salary of Rs3,500 to teachers or face action,” he said speaking at a ceremony held at a local school here on Monday.

He said that some schools in the province were not following the government’s directives in this regard, adding that they were paying much less than the minimum salary stipulated by the provincial government.

He said that the education department would conduct raids to make such schools comply with government directives, adding that the department had been instructed to conduct raids on private schools.

Akhtar Nawaz Khan highlighted the government’s performance and said that the government’s performance could be gauged from the performance of his constituency alone, where 14 new girls’ high schools, two girls’ colleges, a degree college for men and a number of primary schools had been established.