EMA staff work on half salary

PESHAWAR:

For the past one year the employees of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Education Monitoring Authority (EMA) have been working on half salary and employees have decided to go on strike against it from April 1st if their demands are not accepted.

EMA was established by the previous PTI government to check the teachers’ attendance and lack of basic facilities at the public sector schools and it proved its worth as 70 percent teachers were not doing their duty across the province in the past. Initially EMA was started as a project but later it was given legal status and the employees were made permanent in the year 2020.

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Talking to The Express Tribune an official of the EMA said that his organization was a great success in keeping a check on the teachers at schools.

“In 2018 government spent Rs50 billion on primary school teachers’ salaries and despite this, teachers were not interested in duty but EMA’s effective monitoring forced them to go to schools regularly and perform their duties.

This was a visible change in the education sector and PTI took its credit in almost every rally and every speech but what was the reward for the employees of EMA?,” he said

Published in The Express Tribune, March 18^th, 2021.