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The demand came after the Punjab government, in the budget 2017-18, announced that the Primary School Teachers (PST) would be upgraded from Grade 9 to 14, ESTs from Grade 14 to 15 and ESTs in Grade 15 would ascend to grade 16.
The provincial government further announced that those ESTs, who were already in Grade 16, would receive two annual increments.
Similar incentives were announced for SSTs.
The upgrade of the teachers’ basic pay scales would cost the provincial exchequer an amount of Rs9 billion.
The Punjab government also estimated that 0.3 million teachers would benefit from the upgrade, while the process of upgradation was to start from January 2018.
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The schoolteachers made the demand for the upgradation of ESTs and SSTs during a meeting with Punjab School Education Department (SED) Secretary Dr Allah Baksh Malik.
The teachers, belonging to the United Teachers’ Council (UTC), thanked the secretary and the Punjab government for the upgradation of PST teachers to BPS-14.
The UTC members demanded that the Punjab government upgrade the scale for EST and SST teachers.
Speaking to representatives of teachers, SED Secretary Dr Allah Baksh Malik assured them that their demands would be considered.
He said representatives would be taken into confidence and a summary of the upgradation would be approved according to the wishes of the teachers’ body.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 20th, 2017.
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