Eduction dept: Moonlighting workers face suspension

KARACHI: All teachers and employees of Sindh’s education department simultaneously working with private companies, media orgnisations and non-governmental organisations will be suspended on the orders of Sindh Senior Minister for Education and Literacy Pir Mazhar-ul Haq. “All those teachers who are drawing salaries from the government exchequer but are not performing their duties will be discharged from service and able teachers will be appointed in their place,” he said. The minister released a list of 352 employees on Thursday and asked the education secretary, Muhammad Siddique Memon, to take immediate action against, “all those who have destroyed the education system.” The district-wise list includes names of teachers, workshop instructors, junior clerks, supervisers, peons, stenotypists, computer staff, watchmen, lab attendants with the names of organisations where they are working.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 12^th, 2011.