Balochistan ‘cleansed’ of ghost teachers

QUETTA: Balochistan Education Secretary Noor-ul-Haq Baloch on Wednesday claimed that the province was hundred per cent cleansed of ghost teachers and strict action was being taken against irregular ones.

He said the government’s Real Time School Monitoring System introduced in 2016 had borne fruitful results and the teachers were now showing punctuality, which also helped in improving education standards in the province.

“Every ghost teacher has been traced and terminated from service and the government is tightening noose on those who remain irregular,” he added.

Baloch also said since RTSM’s inception the government had deducted Rs60 million from the salaries of irregular teachers as fine and those who remained on willful absence for more than 15 days had been sacked after completing legal formalities.



Noor said the system was so impartial and transparent that, “A minister’s wife was also terminated due to absence from duty for years.”

To a question, he said that there were a number of non-functional schools located in the province’s suburbs due to lack of staffers.

The secretary said around 8,000 teachers are planned to be recruited to overcome shortage of staff in 32 district schools. However, due to the apex court’s ban on fresh hiring, its implementation is pending.



The Balochistan government had also finalised a plan to establish 500 community schools in far-flung districts to reduce illiteracy and bring revolutionary changes in the underprivileged society, he said.

He said community’s involvement was only solution to increase literacy ratio and ensure quality education to the children on a par with other provinces.

Initiation of Parents Teachers School Meeting Committee (PTSMCs) in all schools, he said, was a step to improve collaboration in this regard.

Education was top priority of the incumbent government, therefore, it was using all possible resources to bring improvement in this sector, he added.