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Hussein Babak announces regularization of 1350 contract SSTs

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PESHAWAR: The NWFP Minister for Elementary and Secondary Education Sardar Hussein Babak Friday announced the regularization of 1350 contract SSTs that included 818 male and 532 female teachers serving in various schools of the province. The services of the contract teachers have been regularized under the NWFP Employees (Regularization of Services) Act 2009.

Briefing media persons at his office in Civil Secretariat Peshawar, the Education Minister said that the regularization of the contract teachers, which would be effective from January 1, 2009, would help in meeting the shortage of teaching staff in government run schools and would not affect the promotion of the existing regular teaching staff at all. “Snatching not but giving employment to the people is the policy of the ANP-led government in the province and we are trying our utmost to appoint the right persons for the right jobs”, remarked Babak. No body, he said, can prove against us any nepotism or violation of merit in making recruitments. All our policies are aimed at imparting quality education to the students as well as enhancing literacy ratio in the province, he observed.

Sardar Hussein Babak informed that work on war footing was also being made to fill the vacant posts of headmasters and principals all over the province. As many as 3747 posts have been requisitioned from the NWFP Public Service Commission and we are satisfied with the progress so far made in this regard, he further told.

The Provincial Minister exhorted upon the teaching community to keep the high ideals of their prophetic profession always before themselves and desist from indulging in politics as teaching and politics can’t go together and will have negative impact on the future of the young generation. Rather they should concentrate on the education and character-building of the students in order to make them useful citizens who in future could serve the country and the nation with distinction.

Meanwhile the NWFP government has agreed to establish a fund of Rs.2.8 billion to promote economic activities in Malakand Division. For this purpose loans would be given to small and medium enterprises of the war-hit region out of the fund and a formal mechanism would be evolved soon in this regard.

This was disclosed by Provincial Additional Secretary Industries NWFP Asmatullah Gandapur in an interview, the other day, Under the scheme traders and industrialists would be given soft loans from Rs.50000 to Rs.2 million for which a special committee has also been constituted, Gandapur told. He said that out of the total amount, Rs.2.5 billion would be available for disbursement to the SME (Small & Medium Enterprise) sector and the remaining amount of Rs.300 millions would be used to cover the risk of default, implementation and operations of the scheme. He further told that loans through the scheme would be interest free but five percent annual service charges to cover the risk of default and charges of the banking for rendering service.