Karachi-The theme for this year’s World Teachers’ Day, to be commemorated on October 5 (today), is “Build the future: invest in teachers now”.
World Teachers’ Day has been commemorated since 1994 when it was created by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) for teachers all over the world.
“The main purpose of World Teachers’ Day is to build peace in the minds of human beings through education. This is why the day is aimed to mobilise support for teachers. As per UNESCO recommendations, it is an occasion to celebrate the essential role of teachers in providing quality education at all levels,” according to UNESCO. “World Teachers’ Day remembers the anniversary of the signing in 1966 of the UNESCO and ILO recommendation regarding the ‘status of teachers’. This day also brings attention to the global problem of the shortage of teachers and the challenges of being a teacher today.”
Meanwhile, Sindh Professors and Lecturers’ Association President Muzafar Ali Rizvi said that teachers and lecturers have been suffering a lot in the country, particularly in Karachi. There are approximately 550 ad hoc lecturers waiting for their salaries for the past four months, Rizvi told The News. Most of them were selected and hired on regular basis but they were still deprived of their salaries, he added.
“There is no proper and timely dealing of service matters of teachers in Karachi and no promotion in grades 19 and 20 has been made since 2001,” he said. “Almost 81 cases are due for promotion in grades 19 and 20, while 538 lecturers in grades 17 and 18 have not yet received promotion orders despite the fact that they cleared every procedure in March.”
Adviser to Sindh Chief Minister, Sharmila Farooqui, has said that the Sindh government will soon enhance the basic scale of teachers’ pay from BPS-7 to 9; 9 to 11 and 11 to 13, besides providing them with a monthly allowance of Rs1,000.
“The matter is under consideration and teachers will get some good news soon,” Farooqui said in a statement. She further said that teachers were being appointed in Sindh only on merit under the World Bank’s Reform Programme.
“There are 3,000,000 teachers throughout the country, of whom Sindh has only 250,000,” she said, adding that teachers play a vital role in building the future of the new generation.
“The government is making efforts to raise the standard of education and this is why lecturers and professors are being sent abroad on scholarships for receiving higher education in various fields, particularity in science and technology,” she added.The News.
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