Schoolteachers’ sit-in enters third day

Teachers demand scale up-gradation, plan boycotting by-elections

PESHAWAR:

The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Primary School Teachers Association's protest entered its third day on Saturday.

They are demanding scale up-gradation and it is expected that the primary schoolteachers would announce a boycott of election duty in the October 16 by-elections as a protest measure.

On the call of the association all the boys primary schools are closed across the province while girls’ schools are also partially closed as a protest measure.

Around 15 teachers, who were arrested by police for protesting and blocking roads outside the Assembly have been sent to jail while the provincial president of the association and other cabinet members have been released on bail who reached the protest camp at Jinnah Park and received a warm welcome. 

Provincial president Azizullah Khan on this occasion said that delaying tactics were being employed by government for the past three years in the scale up-gradation of primary school teachers. He said that the sit-in will continue.

“The education department and its officers have kept a mum over the police torture at protesting teachers and they didn’t cooperate with us on the scale upgradation issue too,” he said.