LANDI KOTAL: The authorities have dismissed five teachers from service and served notices on 45 others for showing negligence in their duty in various government schools in three tehsils of Khyber Agency.

According to a report, compiled by Agency Education Office, 20 teachers have been removed and one has been demoted for violating official rules and regulations.

The report, available with Dawn, said that a number of teachers in Khyber Agency got jobs on the basis of fake documents and some regular teachers in connivance with staff of the accounts office got extra payment.

The report said that some teachers were withdrawing salaries without performing duty as they were working abroad. It said that Agency Accounts Office in Jamrud was issuing salary regularly in the name of Rehman Shah, a teacher in Government Primary School Haleem Kallay, who had died on August 23, 2013.

The report said that Rukhsana Shaukat, a woman teacher, had settled in UK but she had been drawing her salary for the last 25 months. The department stopped her salary only after Federal Investigation Agency confirmed that she had gone abroad.

The FIA in its findings said that 11 more teachers in Khyber Agency had also gone abroad without getting permission form the department concerned. The department in the meantime served notices on all of them and withheld their monthly salaries.

A committee tasked with verification of government teachers at their respective educational institutions said that 32 teachers, including three local journalists, were not performing duty as they gave half of their salary to their `unqualified` relatives and friends to work as their `substitutes` at their restive schools.

The same committee found that the appointment of at least seven teachers, including a woman teacher, ware made on the basis of fake documents. Their names were placed on top of the merit list when they were interviewed for the job by the officials of the education department, it said. All the seven teachers were immediately removed and local administration imposed fines on them for committing forgery.

Few of them were also arrested but were later released on the pressure of local elders and influential people.

The committee found no service record of Masood Khan, who had enrolled himself as a theology teacher but performed duty at the accounts office.