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Sindh Chief Minister orders resolution of pension issues of retired employees Teachers transfer policy approved, SCDA to oil palm trees on 3000 acres
Karachi, February 23, 2021 (PPI-OT): Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has directed all the departments, particularly the local bodies, authorities and different boards and other semi government organizations to resolve the pension issues of their employees and report to him. He took this decision while presiding over a cabinet meeting here at New Sindh Secretariat on Tuesday. The meeting was attended by all the provincial ministers, senior advisor, Chief Secretary Mumtaz Shah, Chairman P and D Mohammad Waseem and concerned secretaries.
Sindh Education Foundation to bring 200,000 children back to school
Karachi
January 14, 2021
The Sindh Education Foundation (SEF) is going to establish 1,000 educational institutions across the province under public-private partnership to bring 200,000 out-of-school children back to classrooms.
Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah took the decision during a meeting of the SEFâs board of governors that he chaired at the CM House on Wednesday.
The meeting was told that the SEF plans to set up a thousand schools that will be run by private partners, and these institutions will have the special task of bringing 200,000 out-of-school children back to classrooms. After a discussion, the board members approved the proposal.
Teachers protest at KPC
Government teachers staged a protest outside the Karachi Press Club on Thursday, demanding the immediate release of salaries to teachers and non-teaching staff appointed in 2012.
The protesters also called for making teachers appointed on contracts permanent and discontinuing the contract-based mechanism for hiring teachers. Demanding the dismissal of management cadres from administrative posts, they said junior school teachers should also be promoted to grade 17.
Rest of their demands included the restoration of 1,400 vacancies of supervisors in the school education department, the restoration of biannual increments in salaries, the issuance of biannual funds to teaching staff as given to their counterparts in Balochistan and an increase in the medical allowance and house rent allowance, among others.