The Punjab Government has decided to regularise services of about 10,000 educators inducted in the Education Department on adhoc basis to fulfil the shortage of teachers in the province.
"The provincial government would regularise the services of these educators under regular pay scales and notification to this effect would be issued within a few days", said Chaudhry Muhammad Yousaf, Executive District Officer (EDO), Education Rawalpindi, while talking to reporters here on Wednesday. About 10,000 masters degree holders were inducted in Education Department on a fixed remuneration of Rs 3,000 per month.
They were given an extension of three years in their services by the government after expiry of their contract. The EDO Education told reporters that there are more than 2,500 posts of teachers lying vacant in Rawalpindi district and the Education Department has sent a summary for filling these vacant posts. But he said, the government had so far not issued any order to appoint teachers to mitigate shortage of teaching staff in the district.
The EDO said that more than 100 schools in the district had been running without science teachers. "We are facing a problem as nobody wants to go to the rural areas and even teachers belonging to villages, also prefer to serve in big cities", he added.
He informed the journalists that there were total 2,450 schools in the district including those 47 schools handed over to Education Department by TMA recently. But, he said that out of 2,450 schools only 25 to 30 schools had their own computer labs while almost every high school had its own science lab.
He said that the Punjab government had also established "Farogh-i-Taleem Fund" (Development of Education Fund) and the SMCs were empowered to collect Rs 10 from each student for this fund.