PESHAWAR, Nov 11 The elementary and secondary education department has formed scrutiny committees to ensure that ineligible contract teachers seeking regularisation of their services in Grade 16 and 17 are not confirmed, sources said.

After the government announced regularisation of services of contract employees, many contract teachers, who had not joined their respective schools under the agreement, also applied for confirmation of their services, they said. In view of shortage of teachers, the provincial government had appointed teachers on contract basis in 2005 and continued to extend their contracts for six months or one year.

Due to meagre salaries and temporary nature of the job, many teachers had opted not to join their duties and preferred working somewhere else.

Each scrutiny committee is led by a chairman and has two members, which will look into the details of teachers in the designated districts.

Swabi Government High School principal Liaqat Ali has been appointed chairman of the committee that will look into cases of contract teachers in southern districts, including Kohat, Hangu, Karak and Bannu.

Ahmad Jan, principal of Government High School at Charsadda Khas, is leading the committee which will examine the documents of contract teachers in Peshawar, Charsadda, Mardan, Nowshera and Swabi districts.

The committee headed by Hameedullah Jan, principal of Government Higher Secondary School at Pezu, Lakki Marwat, will scrutinise applications of contract teachers in Dera Ismail Khan, Tank and Lakki Marwat. Similarly, Abdur Raqeeb, chairman of another committee, will conduct scrutiny of cases of contract teachers in Lower and Upper Dir and Chitral.

Sultan Mehmood and his team will visit Malakand, Swat and Buner to do the job. Sharif Gul and Ghulam Mustafa, who lead their respective committees, will decide the eligibility of teachers in Haripur, Abbottabad and Mansehra, and Battagram, Shangla and Kohistan, respectively.

The committees will carry out scrutiny of appointment orders of teachers concerned from the list supplied to the directorate of elementary and secondary education by executive district officers concerned.