The Sindh government recruited around fifty thousand teachers in 2021-2022 which included Junior Elementary and Primary School teachers in a one go.

These teachers were recruited through a transparent third-party testing institute, IBA Sukkur, which is known as a credible testing service. Before this recruitment drive, there was an acute shortage of teachers in government schools.

Most of the teachers recruited through IBA Sukkur are qualified with MSc and MPhil degrees. They are fresh graduates and highly motivated to teach in the schools where they are currently posted. These teachers are capable of bringing a positive change in our education sector. They can reshape the future of Sindh. Credit of their recruitment goes to the Government of Sindh, and the PPP takes credit.

Many serving ministers have attended the offer order distribution ceremonies. After the photo sessions or credit-taking ceremonies, the teachers joined their schools, and started to work with dedication.

However, it has now been over ten months since they have been paid. Not a single teacher has received their salary.

People elsewhere in the world are talking about making trips to the planets in the solar system and here, in our province, the District Education Officials are not even able to prepare a database (in MS Excel) of teachers, something that should take just a few hours.

Many districts, including Matiari, failed to submit the joining database of Primary School Teachers so their salaries could be processed. The Accountant General of Sindh which comes under the Ministry of Finance is also equally responsible for this delay; it has an outdated system to create IDs for newly recruited employees. They do not have skilled employees to process salaries of thousands of teachers. Both the education and finance departments have made excuses. Be that as it may, all this has caused distress of unimaginable proportion among these people and their families.

These teachers even left previous jobs to become teachers; they are the only breadwinners of their families. How one can serve without being paid for 10 months in a country where the inflation rate is 24%? The government needs to solve this problem like yesterday.

By @pst_teacher