CM announces regularization of ad hoc teachers

PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mahmood Khan on Tuesday announced to regularize all ad hoc teachers, numbering about 58,000, from the date of their initial appointment.

He made the announcement while meeting a delegation of the Young Teachers Association.

He said the seniority of all regularized teachers would remain intact from the same date whereas annual increments of the employees would also be absorbed in the basic pay scales.

 Mahmood Khan made it clear that he had signed the summary for the regularization of teachers and the draft bill to this effect would be submitted to the provincial assembly after formal approval from the provincial cabinet very soon.

The chief minister said that the provincial government had already planned to regularize the ad hoc teachers which had also been announced in the next financial year budget, adding that the protest of ad hoc teachers was not justified.

He said that the education sector had been the top priority of his government since the day first and added that the provincial government had taken multiple reforms initiatives in addition to the merit based recruitment of thousands of new teachers.

“The ultimate goal of the government’s initiatives was to raise the standard of education in the province,” he remarked and said that provision of employment opportunities to the competent and talented youth and their job security was the priority of his government.

That’s why he said 63,000 ad hoc employees, including 58,000 teachers, were being regularized in the new financial budget.

On the occasion, representatives of the Young Teachers Association acknowledged the announcement of the chief minister regarding regularization of ad hoc teachers from the date of their appointment and said that the provincial government of PTI had taken unprecedented initiatives for the development of education sector in the province.