HYDERABAD / DADU: Sindh Education Minister Syed Sardar Shah has said that as a part of the ongoing modernisation of educational system in the province, new applications are being introduced.
Through such applications, perfor-mance of employees would be monitored, and those who will fail to do their duties regularly, punctually and diligently will be sacked, he warned.
The minister was speaking to officials of his department and media personnel during his visit to a school in Tando Mohammad Khan on Monday.
He said that inquiries conducted recently revealed that around 6,000 teachers were marked as absentees. He said they would be provided one opportunity to defend themselves. He said that such teachers should take advantage of this opportunity to avoid dismissal from service.’Anyone not performing duty will be sacked regardless of his / her innuence,’ he declared, and said that the education sector would have to move forward after taking lessons from the past mistakes. He said that now only merit-based appointments were being made in education department when compared with those appointed in the 60s, 70s and 90s when under-matriculation teachers used to be appointed as teachers.
He said that complaints regarding tenders and deductions of budgets by district treasury offices would be addressed.
He said that deputy commissioners of therespective districts were made in charge to conduct such inquiries.
Mr Shah said the federal government had not done justice with people on the issue of petroleum levy. He noted that no relief was provided to people due to such levy despite inflation. He said that petrol prices should be reduced to provide relief to people.
A delegation of Primary Teachers Association led by Shahnawaz Kumbhar called on the minister. The delegation was told that service structure had been restored and such a summary would be approved by the finance department soon to enforce this service structure.