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Teachers protest transfers on political grounds

By Our Correspondent 2014-11-09
UPPER DIR: A local teachers` association on Saturday staged a protest against `adjustments and transfers of teachers on political grounds`here.

The protesters chanted slogans against the district education officer and demanded of the government to constitute an impartial committee for scrutiny of recent adjustments and transfers ofteachers.

Addressing the protesting teachers, People`s Teachers Association president Syed Badshah Hussain, ex-MPA Mohammad Anwer Khan and others said that under the policy secondary schoolteachers had to be adjusted in their own schools if vacant posts were available.

But, they added, the posts were filled by transferring other teachers on political basis.

Badshah Hussain said the district education officer was responsible for the violation of the policy. `Such vacant posts were filled in the name of adjustment in Thal, Kalkot, Karodarra, Samkut and other schools of the district,` he complained.

The teachers` leader asked the education department to review the teachers` adjustments and carry out the same on the basis of merit.

The association`s general secretary Sahibzada alleged that quality of educational institutions in the district had deteriorated after the incumbent DEO Jan Mohammad tool< charge.

He alleged that irregularities were also committed in the transfers and adjustments of primary schoolteachers.

WAGAH VICTIM BURIED: A female teacher of a private college from Gandigar area of Upper Dir, who was killed in the Wagah border suicide attack, was laid to rest in her village here.

The body of the victim, Anisa Mukhtar, was shifted to Gandigar from Lahore the other day.

Her father Mulchtar Khan said that she had gone to the Wagah border along with other family members to witness the flag lowering ceremony.

Anisa and a relative, Adeel, were killed on the spot, while her sister, a student of FSc, was injured.