LAHORE: A number of teachers on Monday protested outside the school education department (SED) against their removal from services.

Up to 600 teachers from the Elementary School Educators (ESE), and Senior Elementary School Teachers (SESE) belonging to grade 14 and 15 were dismissed from service for not submitting BEd degrees.Punjab Teachers Union central president Waheed Murad Yousifi said the government should revise its laws and restore the teachers to their jobs.

He said the Insaaf Afternoon Schools teachers be given an overhead allowance.

An SED official told Dawn that ESEs and SESEs were hired with a condition to complete their BEd degree within three years but they had not submitted it to the department. He said the teachers who failed to submit the degrees were given additional two years to complete the recruitment conditions but they could not do so.

He said the department had extended one year more time due to the coronavirus pandemic and the teachers who could not submit the degree were removed from service.

Published in Dawn, February 8th, 2022