KARAK: The provincial government will regularise the ad hoc and contractual teaches as a bill on the matter will be tabled in the provincial assembly soon, says director elementary and secondary education, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Rafique Khattak.

Addressing a ceremony held in the government middle school, Karak, in his honour here on Saturday, he added the government planned to recruit 15,000 more teachers.

Elders, parents and local body representatives attended the ceremony. The director education approved the reconstruction of the middle school.

Mr Khattak said the incumbent government had started imparting trainings to teachers on latest teaching methodologies, and was ensuring regular presence of teachers in schools through the Independent Monitoring Unit (IMU).

The director said until June 2018 no educational institution would be lacking basic facilities like drinking water, boundary wall and electricity. All schools would have IT labs by then, he added.

He claimed the government was utilising huge funds to ensure provision of quality education to students, and said now the teachers` existence was connected to improved presence of students in school.

Mr Khattak said reforms in the examination system, educational boards and curriculum were in the offing.

He said four more girls higher secondary schools would be established in the backward union councils of the district, including Gurguri, Sirajkhel and Jatta Ismailkhel.Correspondent