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MULTAN, March 28: The government should remove discrimination between the primary school and college teachers regarding salaries and grades.
This was demanded by Muttahida Mahaz Asataza Pakistan Secretary-General Raza Zafeer Dasti while speaking to newsmen here on Thursday.
As the literacy ratio in the country was low, the government’s decision to recruit teachers on a contract against 70,000 vacant posts revealed it was least interested in promoting education, he said.
He demanded the teachers should never be recruited on a contract nor should institutions be privatized.
In federal schools, he said the primary and middle school teachers were given 9 and 14 grades, respectively, but in the provincial schools they were given 7 and 9 grades, respectively. There was no justification of the inequality and the provincial schoolteachers should be awarded the scales enjoyed by the federal school teachers, he stressed.
He said the funds generated through group insurance and welfare should be handed over to the teachers’ foundation.
INJURED: Three people, including a woman, sustained injuries when their neighbour threw acid on them near Shahbaz intersection here on Thursday.
Amna was on her way to the market in Mohala Jhok Mayja when her neighbour Zulfiqar abused her. Her husband Muhammad Husain and son Naeem came there and exchanged hot words with Zulfiqar.
Minutes later, Zulfiqar and his accomplices Sattar and Jabbar threw acid on them and escaped.
The injured were shifted to the Nishtar Hospital where the condition of Husain was stated to be critical.
The Mumtazabad police have yet to register a case.—Nouman
