LAKKI MARWAT - A delegation of teachers belonging to Lakki city called on Sub Divisional Education Officer Rehmatullah Khan at his office on Thursday and apprised him about the problems of their community.

The delegation consisted of Khan Momin, Samargul, Haji Ghulam Akbar, Pir Mir Badshah, Javedur Rehman and others. The members of the delegation appreciated SDEO and other local officials of education department for completing the process of upgrading primary schoolteachers to higher scales on time.
They demanded that the teachers hailing from Lakki city who had been promoted to BPS-15 should be adjusted as head teachers in the primary schools of urban locality.
 They said that non-local teachers should be posted in the schools of their native union councils.
“The officials of education department should transfer and post teachers (BPS-15) of Lakki city in the schools of rural areas in case they face the shortage of local teachers there”, they maintained. 
Talking to delegation, Rehmatullah assured that genuine grievances of teachers of urban areas would be addressed on priority basis. He said that all newly promoted teachers would be posted in the schools situated near their homes.
“It will enable them to perform their professional duty without facing any problem”, he maintained. He said that the government had accepted the longstanding demand of teachers by awarding them higher scales; therefore they should spare themselves to impart quality education to students and focus on their character building.