Khyber Pakhtunkhwa primary teachers boycott classes over service structure
Wednesday, October 26th, 2011 5:18:34 by Sonia Bashir
All Primary Teachers Association (APTA) on Tuesday started boycott of classes in primary schools across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to press the current government for acceptance of their longstanding demands of service structure and implementation of time scale promotion policy.
“We have been demanding of the government to introduce time scale promotion policy for the primary school teachers, but it always ignored our demand,” APTA president Khalid Khan said. “The primary teachers are kept deprived of their right to promotion, already given to teachers in other provinces.”
Khalid Khan said that primary teachers in other provinces reached grade-16 until the retirement age while in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa they could not go beyond grade-9. He said that the Awami National Party (ANP) government had been playing delaying tactics for the last three years, forcing the teachers to boycott classes.
He said that the teachers observed a token strike by wearing black armbands from Oct 1 to 9 and then a two-hour daily boycott of classed from October 10 to 22, but the government ignored their demand for announcing the promotion policy. “Now we will observe complete boycott of classes from October 25 to November 6,” the APTA president said.
Mr Khan said that they would stage a sit-in in Peshawar after the coming Eid if their demand for promotion was not accepted.
The APTA’s district chapters have also been asked to hold protest rallies in their respective headquarters, he said.
However, this correspondent visited several primary schools and saw teachers busy performing duties as usual. The teachers said that they could not boycott classes, as the annual examinations were approaching nearer and they had to finish their courses.
When contacted, executive district education officer Hakimullah Khan said that he and his other staff visited many primary schools, but there was no boycott of classes by teachers.
In Chitral, the primary teachers started their boycott of classes on Tuesday and vowed that the strike would continue until acceptance of their demands.
District president of APTA, Chitral, Mr Ashraf said that there were over 1,400 male and female teachers in Chitral and they would not attend the classes till their demand for promotion was accepted by the government.
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on Oct 26 2011. Filed under Latest News.
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Gov should give pbs16 on basis of Ba Bsc,bed braces in secondary all teachers held Bps 16 on the based Ba,Bsc thus high qualified persons will come to primary schools and I dukes thus our primary level will achieve good progress Inshaallah
it is injustice that metric pass has 15 scale and Ma,msc frish has only12 scale on the way the high qualified persons will leave this deportment in future for the sake God take potty on pstes
To govt and education deporment of kpk if govt and pro want progress in education they should give Bps 16 to all pages on the base of Ba,bsc, bed because in high and middle schools all teachers get bps16 on the above thus the high qualified persons will come to primary level otherwise high qualified will leave this deportment in future in this time metric pass has bps15 and ma,msc bed frish only bps12 explain how the frish pages will take interest