PESHAWAR, Sept 12: The NWFP All Teachers Association (ATA) has urged the government to release their teacher allowances like in Balochistan and Islamabad and strongly denounced the education department’s interference in the matter.

Teachers from all 24 districts of the province made the demand during a demonstration held in front of the Peshawar Press Club on Tuesday.

They severely criticised education department which they claimed was creating hurdles in the release of teachers’ allowances.

The teachers holding placards condemned the appointment in the education department on fixed pay and asked the provincial government to end such employment.

The teachers, who were led by the ATA’s provincial president, Haji Shamshad, and its general secretary, Khairullah Khawari, warned that they would boycott their duties in case the government failed to solve their problems.

They said teachers performing in all four towns of district Peshawar should be given equal incentives. They urged the government to remove disparity while paying incentives to the teachers performing in the same district.

“Only the NWFP government has blocked payment of teacher’s allowance while a poor province like Balochistan is giving the same allowance to teachers performing there,” they claimed.—PPI