QUETTA: Chief Minister Dr Abdul Malik Baloch has said that recruitment of senior schoolteachers is being made through the Balochistan Public Service Commission and National Testing System to ensure transparency and selection of right candidates.

He was speaking during an inspection of the examination and test for the posts of teachers at Arfa Kareem Randhawa Hall in the Balochistan University of Information Technology, Engineering and Management Sciences.

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For the first time in the history of the province, he said, 5,000 teachers were being recruited through the NTS. The process began with the examination and test for 1,200 posts in which about 9,000 male and female candidates had appeared, he added.

The chief minister said that the fee for the examination / test would be decreased.

The chairman of the commission, retired justice Kailash Nath Kohli, informed the chief minister that adequate arrangements had been made for conducting the test.

Published in Dawn, November 9th, 2015

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