50,000 teachers to be recruited by Sindh Govt

Sindh Education Minister Syed Sardar Ali Shah has stated that 50,000 instructors will be hired for government-run schools in the province within a year.

The Education Minister, speaking at a conference at the Arts Council Karachi, said the Sindh government's new recruitment drive will go a long way toward alleviating the scarcity of schoolteachers and raising the province's educational standards.

He said that a fully transparent and meritorious method had been used to recruit instructors, and that he could personally guarantee that no teacher would be hired unfairly. He said that female candidates in the recruitment test were given particular consideration in terms of passing marks in order to stimulate the admission of female instructors, claiming that all criticism in this regard was unjust.

He stressed that a fully digital system for recruiting teachers had been devised since there was no place for dishonest means of obtaining a teaching position.

He stated that any employee of the Sindh Education Department caught accepting a bribe in exchange for a teaching job would be fired as well as imprisoned.

For the interest of transparency, he claimed, an outside agency had been contracted to perform the teacher recruiting test.

Pre-induction training would be provided to newly hired teachers, according to the Education Minister, to enable them to instruct school kids with professionalism.

He said the process of merging Sindh's three teacher-training institutes into a single institution with a unified board of governors had begun so that the training work could be done more efficiently and professionally.

He stated that people from small towns and villages typically relocate to big cities to earn a living, but that they should not forget about their schools once they have completed their studies and should instead own and assume responsibility for their alma mater.