APTA hold teachers convention

Chitral—All Primary Teachers Association (APTA) Chitral arranged a one day teacher’s convention at Government Commerce College Hall Chitral which was successfully concluded. Provincial president of APTA Malik Khalid Khan was chief guest on the occasion. Addressing to the convention cabinet member of APTA Chitral said that teachers are architect of the nation but here we are being treating as step mother behavior. They said that a primary school teacher (PST) is giving scale 15 in Sindh and other provinces but here in our KP province a PST recruit in basic pay scale 7 and retire in

scale 9 maximum. They also announced for launching province vise protest in favor of their demands which they already had sent to provincial government and high ups of education department. They announced that APTA of Khyber Pahton Khwa have already started their token protest by wearing black ribbon on their arms from 1st October which will be continue up to 8th October.

All Primary Teachers of KP province will boycott from classes for two hours at day (9:30 to 11:30) to register their token protest from 10 to 22nd October and if their genuine demands were not fulfilled they will boycott from classes completely from 24 October until fulfillment of their demands.