Rewarded: NEF teachers regularised, pay revised

GILGIT: The services of more than 1,450 teachers working under the National Education Foundation (NEF) in Gilgit–Baltistan (G-B) have been regularised, with teachers to begin receiving their revised pay from next month, officials said on Sunday. “Their services have been regularised by the federal government and their pay increased,” Ali Madad Sher, the regional education minister said of the teachers, most of whom were hired a decade ago under a social action programme to spread education in the remote areas. They were later placed under the NEF in 2009 after the teachers boycotted classes to protest over low salaries and insecure jobs. Salaries have been revised from Rs3,000 per month to Rs8,000 per month, the minimum wages fixed by the government for a government employee.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 12^th, 2012.