Pakistan scraps 44,000 posts of govt school teachers

LAHORE: The education department of the Punjab province in Pakistan has abolished 44,000 posts of govt schoolteachers as part of its outsourcing campaign to the private sector. The move adds to the existing challenges and struggles for the citizens, who are faced with a towering inflation, which is aggravated by consistent job losses in the private sector, and now the govt sectors as well.

According to reliable sources in the Punjab school education department, it will now be up to the private sector owners to hire teachers according to their policy. On the other hand, teachers say that the decision will add to growing unemployment among youth. ians