HYDERABAD, Dec 3: Sindh Education Minister Khan Mohammad Dahri has said that 418 vacancies of primary school teachers had been notified.

He was speaking at a ceremony, held here on Monday at the Government High School near the Circular Building, to distribute job offer letters to the school teachers.

The minister said that the vacancies were notified for the Government Girls’ Primary Community Model School Project in 134 schools of the defunct Hyderabad and Mirpurkhas divisions.

The project, he said, was being implemented in collaboration with the Asian Development Bank, adding that it was aimed at raising the standard of education and literacy rate, specially among the girls of rural areas.

A seven-member selection committee, he said, had been constituted in this regard by the education department and it would be headed by the DCO, Hyderabad, Mir Hussain Ali.

He said that the committee had already submitted its recommendations, adding that job offer letters to the candidates of other districts would be distributed soon.

Earlier, Dahri distributed 61 job offer letters to the teachers of the Girls’ Community Model School.

The Sindh minister for education said that over 300 offer letters had been distributed in Hyderabad district alone during one month for the appointment of primary school teachers.

He said that the process of receiving applications for junior and high school teachers would soon be completed, adding that interviews for the same would also be held soon.

The provincial education minister said that the successful candidates belonged to the following talukas: 11 to Hyderabad, 12 to Hala, 21 to Tando Allahyar, 12 to Matiari and five to Tando Mohammad Khan.

A teachers training programme, he said, had also been initiated besides encouraging good teachers and providing outstanding students with annual awards and stipends.

He also informed that a scheme for distribution of free books among the students of primary schools was being extended up to class VIII girls students.

Hyderabad district Nazim Makhdoom Rafiquzzaman and EDO, education, Manzoor Hussain Bhutto, also spoke on the occasion.