Senate panel endorses regularisation of daily wage teachers

The Senate Standing Committee on Federal Education and Professional Training on Thursday called for doing away with injustices being meted out to female teachers in the educational system and their rights should be fully protected.

The committee discussed the matter of the issuance of notification for the appointment/posting of junior lady teachers at Islamabad Model College.

Committee Chairman Senator Irfan-ul-Haq Siddiqui, while reviewing the matter and hearing out the teachers present at the meeting emphasised that all out efforts must be made to curb the practice of hiring teachers on daily wages.

While negating the remarks of the Federal Directorate of Education director-general, who termed the teachers his daughters, Siddiqui said that the story would have been completely different, had this ‘truly’ been the case.

He added that if the FDE director-general meant what he said the teachers in question would not have been left to struggle, for years, on their own. “It was heartrending to see that some teachers had been serving on daily wages for the past 15 years without proper compensation for their services,” he said and directed the FDE and the Federal Public Service Commission to regularise the said teachers at the earliest and submit an implementation report within 15 days.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 3^rd, 2023.