PESHAWAR, Dec 11: Teachers working on daily wage basis in educational institutions run by Water And Power Development Authority have appealed for regularization of their services.

The teachers teaching in Tarbella, Guddo and Muzzafargarh schools of Wapda have jointly appealed to Wapda Chairman to regularize their services as a majority of them had been teaching in these schools for the last nine years.

In Sept 2004, the organization had decided to regularize services of those daily-wage employees who had been working for the last five years and had shown satisfactory service.

The decision excluded those teachers who have been working for the past nine or 10 years in the hope that their services would also be regularized.

Wapda management confirmed services of daily-wage employees of Grade 1 to 15, leaving the Grade-16 teachers who had been working for more than five years.

These Grade 16 teachers want Wapda authorities to regularize their services as they could not apply for any other government because they have been attached to the institution for the last nine years and most of them have now become over-age.

One of the teachers told Dawn on condition of anonymity that the teachers were paid just Rs200 per day with no medical, house rent and other facilities.

He said that state of uncertainty had badly affected their professional skills and working. He said the standard of education could not be improved until the teachers were given mental relief in the form regularization of their services.