We will protest until
our demands are met. All primary teachers
Association Khyber Pakhtoonkhawa is on protest since
October 1st and from 22nd
October classes are being boycotted too. The
association is planning to stage protests rallies
and demonstrations for the rights of teachers
throughout the province during the month of
November.
Labour
Education ( November 2011)
All Primary Teachers Association
Khyber Pakhtoonkhawa started their struggle for
rights on 9th May 2011 with a convention
in which around 6000 teachers participated. They are
demanding for implementation of service structure
and time scales, primary teachers to be given 20%
quota in SST, CT fund to be replaced by GP fund,
restoration of advance increment on over time,
increasing education budget, primary teachers to be
given 50 % quota in University and board
examinations, EEF and benevolent fund to be spent on
building schools, colleges and on residential
schemes for teachers, introduce teacher’s welfare
foundation, ending one time 2007 up gradation,
rejection of collector system and education
privatization. Teacher’s are still on protest and
the government does not seem to be serious in
resolving the issue. There has been no progress
since one month when the association announced
boycott of classes.
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