Parachinar: Jun 11, 2010

Friday, June 11, 2010

200 teachers dismissed in Kurram Agency

Bureau Report
Friday, 11 Jun, 2010

PESHAWAR, June 10: About 200 teachers working in different government schools in Kurram Agency for the last seven years have been laid off.

They were hired on temporary basis in 2004 from across the agency after a formal test and interviews.

The teachers had been performing duties in boys and girls schools despite lack of facilities and incentives in the tribal region where a blockade for the last three years had badly affected daily life.

They have now been told not to come after June 30. "The affected teachers have expressed their disappointment and anger over the insensitive attitude of the education authorities", a teacher told Dawn.

Elders and religious leaders of the tribal region have demanded of the government not to deprive the families of the teachers of their livelihood.

source: http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/local/peshawar/200-teachers-dismissed-in-kurram-agency-160

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200 contract teachers ‘sacked’ in Kurram Agency

200 contract teachers 'sacked' in Kurram Agency

Friday, June 11, 2010
By Ali Afzal Afzaal

PARACHINAR: Two hundred teachers, inducted nearly seven years ago in the state-run schools on contract basis, were sacked in the violence-hit Kurram Agency on Thursday.

Sources said the teachers had been appointed on contract basis to make up for the lack of staff in the government schools in Kurram Agency in 2004 after proper procedure of tests and interviews. The sources said the education department in Kurram sacked the teachers with effect from June 30, 2010.

Two of the sacked teachers, Tajir Hussain and Zamin Hussain, told The News that when they contacted the agency education officials in this regard, they said they had nothing to do with this matter as it had been done by the high-ups of the education department.

Meanwhile, this scribe tried to contact Agency Education Officer Muhammad Afzal several times but he was unavailable to comment on the issue.

The social and political circles expressed their concern over the government decision, arguing that the education of children was already at stake in the area because of violence. They said the decision would not only affect the students but also the poor families of the teachers whose jobs were terminated.

The teachers and tribal elders asked the federal and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa governments to take note of the issue and withdraw the termination order of the teachers to save the future of children in Kurram Agency.