KP cabinet approves upgradation of teachers pay scale.

Peshawar -- Khyber pakhtunkhwa Cabinet met here on Tuesday with Chief Minister Mahmood Khan in the chair and approved up: gradation of the posts of secondary school Teachers (ssT) and primary school Teachers (psT) from Bps: 16 to Bps: 17 and from Bps: 12 to Bps: 14 respectively with effect from next financial year. The up: gradation of these posts, which was a long: standing demand of the teachers' community, will benefit as many as 21,800 ssTs and 51,000 PSTs the province over. Likewise the posts of CT, DM, aT and peT have also been upgraded from Bps: 15 to Bps: 16. Similarly, a four: tier formula was also approved for the teachers to pave the way for promotion of 13,888 teachers working in various scales ranging from BPS: 17 to BPS: 20. addressing the meeting the Chief Minister said that he was grateful to all the cabinet members as well as the bureaucracy and masses for extending him all: out support during his tenure as Chief Minister of the province. 'It was the team work and best planning that ensured speedy development of the province,' he remarked.

Upgradation of the teachers, he hoped, will enable them to work with further commitment and devotion contributing towards promoting quality education in the province. He expressed the hope that PTI will also emerge victorious in the next elections too by getting two: third majority on the basis of its good performance and continue serving the masses selflessly. The meeting besides the cabinet members was also attended by the provincial Chief secretary, additional Chief secretary, senior Member Board of revenue and administrative secretaries of various government departments. Briefing the media persons about the decisions of the cabinet meeting at ITLA'A Cell, KP Minister for elementary and secondary education shahram Tarakai and special assistant to Chief Minister Khyber pakhtunkhwa on Information and prs Barrister Muhammad ali saif said that promotion of education sector was the top of the PTI government's priorities and the provincial government had taken various revolutionary steps in this regard which included the recruitment of thousands of teachers purely on merit, launching of double shift in schools, making the...