PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has decided to make deductions from the salaries of 3,800 teachers of BPS-17 and above for absenting duty.

The decision was taken during a high-level meeting regarding the monitoring mechanism in the education department held here on Tuesday with secretary elementary and secondary education Muttasim Billah Shah in the chair. The meeting was convened on the directives of minister for elementary and secondary education Shahram Khan Tarakai.

The meeting also decided to hold science exhibitions in all schools after the winter vacation. A 10-member committee of women officers was constituted to pay visits to girl schools across the province and check laboratories and cleanliness conditions.

On finding inactive laboratories and poor cleanliness conditions, the committee will issue suspension orders of the officers concerned. The meeting also decided to write letters to all deputy commissioners to inform them that the education department had banned ready-made practical copy, and initiate legal action against the shopkeepers selling it.

Furthermore, the meeting also decided to regularly monitor the training standard of all regional professional development centres.

Published in Dawn, December 28th, 2022