PESHAWAR: The association of information technology teachers and lab incharges on Saturday demanded of the provincial government to renew the contract of IT teachers and regularise their services.

A member of the association, Basir Khattak, said their contract expired on June 30, 2017, but the KP government was reluctant to renew it, according to a press release issued here.

He said the move would put the future of all contract teachers and lab in-charges at stake. Besides, he said, it will darken the future of students if IT teachers were not restored on their positions.

He said the PTI-led government had appointed around 2,500 IT teachers and lab in-charges through NTS for a period of one year on contract, which was renewed twice for next two consecutive years.

Later, these posts were sanctioned in July 2015 by the finance department. But despite having capacity in the schools across the province, the contract of IT teachers was not being renewed.

Mr Khattak said the government had established 1,395 IT labs across the province and planned to establish1,500 more soon but it wanted to hire untrainedteachersforthese posts sidelining the already trained and professional teachers.

It is worth mentioning here that the IT teachers and lab in-charges have not received their salaries for the last three months thus being unable to make both ends meet.

Mr Khattak said most of the IT teachers and lab incharges had switched to the profession by quitting other regular jobs in the hope of getting regularisation and to excel in the profession, but their dreams were shattered by the provincial government`s unjust decision.

`Now most of us have gone past the age limit of getting government jobs. No government institution will hire an overage man,` said Khattak.

He said the then government had appointed IT teachers and lab in-charges in 2004 on project-basis whose services were later regularised through an assembly act in 2009.PESHAWAR: The association of information technology teachers and lab incharges on Saturday demanded of the provincial government to renew the contract of IT teachers and regularise their services.

A member of the association, Basir Khattak, said their contract expired on June 30, 2017, but the KP government was reluctant to renew it, according to a press release issued here.

He said the move would put the future of all contract teachers and lab in-charges at stake. Besides, he said, it will darken the future of students if IT teachers were not restored on their positions.

He said the PTI-led government had appointed around 2,500 IT teachers and lab in-charges through NTS for a period of one year on contract, which was renewed twice for next two consecutive years.

Later, these posts were sanctioned in July 2015 by the finance department. But despite having capacity in the schools across the province, the contract of IT teachers was not being renewed.

Mr Khattak said the government had established 1,395 IT labs across the province and planned to establish1,500 more soon but it wanted to hire untrainedteachersforthese posts sidelining the already trained and professional teachers.

It is worth mentioning here that the IT teachers and lab in-charges have not received their salaries for the last three months thus being unable to make both ends meet.

Mr Khattak said most of the IT teachers and lab incharges had switched to the profession by quitting other regular jobs in the hope of getting regularisation and to excel in the profession, but their dreams were shattered by the provincial government`s unjust decision.

`Now most of us have gone past the age limit of getting government jobs. No government institution will hire an overage man,` said Khattak.

He said the then government had appointed IT teachers and lab in-charges in 2004 on project-basis whose services were later regularised through an assembly act in 2009.