GUJRANWALA, May 24: The education department has hired the services of private schools’ teachers and matric students to conduct the annual examinations of class-V and middle standard to be commenced from Friday (today).

Executive district officer (education) Raja Khadim Hussain said here on Thursday that police would be deployed in force outside the examination centers throughout the district.

He said that no hurdle or interference in the conduct of examination would be tolerated. He said cases would be registered against the schoolteachers in case they tried to sabotage the examination.

On the other hand, office-bearers of the Muttahida Mahaz Asataza announced that schoolteachers would lock the examination centres if the education department did not meet their demand.

They said that teachers would continue their strike until the education department released the teaching allowance.

It may be mentioned that negotiations between schoolteachers and the education department has already come to grief.