LAKKI MARWAT, Nov 3: Primary schoolteachers on Sunday demanded of the government to promote them to grade 17 as they possessed higher education.

Speaking at a meeting here, they said that they possessed BA, B.Ed and other higher qualifications, but they were yet to be promoted to higher grades.

Under the upgradation and promotion policy of the previous government, they said, teachers who had FA and BA qualifications were promoted to BPS-15 and were made head teachers of primary schools, while those having higher qualifications were made subordinates to them.

They said that the provincial government could achieve the goal of quality education and improved learning environment in the primary schools by promoting primary schoolteachers to BPS-17 on the basis of their higher education.-Correspondent