Checks On Teachers: Final call for biometric verification

KARACHI: The provincial education and literacy department has announced the last date to register biometric impressions of all teaching and non-teaching staff of Sindh’s schools and colleges. In a statement issued on Monday, senior education minister Nisar Ahmed Khuhro said the last date to register biometrics is February 16 (today). Khuhro informed that of the 202,725 teaching and non-teaching staff of schools in Sindh, 190, 465 have completed their biometric registration, while 12,260 employees remain. From the 18,207 teaching and non-teaching staff of colleges in Sindh, a total of 14,552 have registered themselves while 3,655 are still unregistered. The minister said the verification system has been introduced to ensure attendance of teachers in schools and colleges.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 16^th, 2016.