RAWALPINDI, Dec 19: The district administration has served show-cause notices on 70 schoolteachers for remaining absent from classes, warning them to clarify their positions or face the music.

The students had complained against their teachers for not delivering them lectures triggering education authorities and DCO Rawalpindi Saqib Zafar to send them theses notices.The schoolteachers were summoned by the DCO on Monday and were grilled for their lack of interest in taking classes. They were asked to submit an affidavit for not missing the classes in future.

There have been growing complaints from students about absence of teachers mainly because majority of schools are running without principals.

Currently more than 30 per cent boys and girls schools have no headmaster/headmistress and the posts have been filled by senior teachers as temporary arrangement.

Saqib Zaffar told Dawn on Monday that a team had been constituted that would monitor the performance and presence of schoolteachers during duty hours in the institutes.

“We will not tolerate negligence of teachers and anybody found absent from class will be dealt harshly under the law,” he said. — Our Reporter