DADU, April 29: Sindh Education Minister Pir Mazharul Haq has warned that references will be sent to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) against teachers who are working for NGOs or private firms, instead of taking classes in schools.

Lists of such teachers had been prepared and action would soon be taken against them, he told journalists in Murad Khushk village on Sunday after inaugurating a school and a water supply scheme.

He said that advertisement about vacancies of 19,000 teachers had appeared in newspapers and added that recruitment would be made on the basis of merit.

When his attention was drawn to the failure of the Sindh Textbook Board to supply free textbooks to schools in Dadu district, the minister said he had directed the board chairman to set up a camp in Dadu to ensure supply of books to students, particularly in far-flung areas.

Government jobs, he said, were being given to youths on the basis of merit and development schemes were being carried out in remote areas. Later, he laid the foundation stone of the building of a boys’ degree college in Faridabad. PPP leaders Barrister Pir Mujeebul Haq and Kazi Shafiq Mahesar accompanied him.