On Centre’s advice: Teachers removed for census duty
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LAHORE: A day after exempting schoolteachers from census duties, a Punjab supervision has topsy-turvy a preference reportedly on a insistence of a sovereign government. The teachers will now lift out their hearing as good as a race count duties along with officers from supervision departments.
The School Education Department (SED) has, however, been destined to make certain no there is no strife of schedules between a census training and a Punjab Examination Commission (PEC) examinations of Class-V and Class-VIII.
Schoolteachers opposite a range will start training for a arriving census from currently (Monday) as a provincial supervision has motionless to redress a progressing preference of not regulating their services.
According to reports, a preference was taken late Saturday dusk on a involvement of a sovereign minister, who asked a Punjab supervision not to repel teachers from census services.
The preference to repel a progressing sequence on a weekend took many teachers by warn as a progressing preference had come came directly from a Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif.
Talking to The Express Tribune, Punjab Teachers’ Union (PTU) General Secretary Rana Liaquat Ali termed a preference ‘strange’. “It was taken during an peculiar hour that too on a holiday,” he speculated. “The teachers have been sensitive about a training sessions of a census only one day earlier.”
In a summary to all district preparation authorities (DEAs) and their particular CEOs, a SED withdrew a instructions released on Feb 3 per a termination of census avocation of teachers. “Teachers delegated shall perform their census avocation as per instructions released earlier,” it said.
On Feb 2, a School Education Department had aired concerns about overlapping duties of examinations and census. The presentation destined officials to take suitable measures to perform both exercises but any default or disturbance.
Published in The Express Tribune, Feb 6th, 2017.
Article source: https://tribune.com.pk/story/1317986/centres-advice-teachers-recalled-census-duty/