Teaching posts: In, Kohistan graduates threaten to disrupt test, interviews

DC assures them grievances will be addressed.

KOHISTAN:

The office bearers of All Kohistan Graduate Association have threatened to disrupt the interviews of female teachers if the education department failed to interview candidates for all the vacant posts.

Speaking to the on Monday, Shamsur Rehman Shams, Abdul Jabbar Khan and Mehboob ur Rehman said that the District Officer Education has called in female candidates for various teaching posts for interviews on January 16 but did not call male applicants for interviews for reasons unknown.



They said it was fishy that only allowing female candidates to appear for the test and interviews. They had warned the education authorities to postpone the test interviews, otherwise they would not allow them to carry on the process till male candidates were also called in and threatened to stage a sit in on the Karakoram Highway on January 16.

However, Kohistan Deputy Commissioner Aqal Badshah Khattak assured them that male and female candidates would be called for interviews on the same day and he would cancel the interview test that was scheduled for January 16.

Kohistan has over 70 vacant teaching positions at different levels, due to which several of government school have remained closed and attendance has been minimal at others.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 15^th, 2013.