Sindh Education Minister Saeed Ghani announced on Thursday the provincial cabinet in Thursday’s meeting approved a policy for recruitment of as many as 37,000 new teachers.
“Sindh Cabinet has approved the recruitment policy to hire around 37000 teachers through IBA Sukkur,” he tweeted.
According to a statement issued from the Chief Minister House, a cabinet committee presented a report on the recruitment policy 2021 during the meeting, outlining a number of recommendations which the cabinet approved.37,000 teachers will be recruited over a period of three years in three phases.
The committee recommended that the post of primary school teacher (PST) be upgraded from BS-9 to BS-14 with graduation in second division set as qualification threshold for the post.
Whileprimary school teacher (PST) will remain posted at primary schools through their service, a service structure will be created for their career progression instead of promoting them to the post of JESTs/HSTs/SSTs.