NAWABSHAH, Nov 23: A group of 173 teachers got their appointment orders after a selection processes here on Friday.

They included: 99 from taluka Nawabshah, 30 from taluka Sakrand and 44 from taluka Daulatpur.

These teachers were appointed on three years’ contract basis and would be imparted training for three months.

District Nazim, Faryal Talpur, while addressing the gathering said that the teachers’ recruitment on merit basis had been a source of great satisfaction to her as it would prove one step forward in achieving literacy ratio. She said that little boys and girls were moving about purposelessly in the streets or helping their parents in the agricultural fields, at shops or at mechanical or other workshops.

Their parents, hard-hit by the economic crunch, were oblivious of their responsibilities towards building the life and career of their children.

She said that these illiterate children of today would be, God forbids, the condemned youth of tomorrow. Mehmood Ahmed Khan, DCO Nawabshah said that in the past, teachers were appointed on political influences, bribery and illegal ways, but he assured that from now onwards they would be appointed on merit basis. District Naib Nazim Khalid Channa, taluka Nazim Nawabshah, Ali Akbar Jamali and other officials of education department also attended the ceremony.

FINED: The Judicial Magistrate No 1 Nawabshah, backed up by a police party, raided different city places, including the railway station, and arrested six persons for selling food items during fasting time and thereby violating “Ehteram-i-Ramazan Ordinance.”