KP government approves new promotion policy for teachers

KP government approves new promotion policy for teachers

PESHAWAR: The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) government has approved long-awaited demands for a policy of timescale increase and grade promotion of primary school teachers in the province.

K-P Elementary and Secondary Education Media Advisor Najiullah Khattak has said that the government had approved the policy primary teachers had been protesting for since several years.

According to Khattak, the teachers’ community had presented a list of demands to the government and it was approved on Monday whereby teachers would be promoted onto the next basic pay scale (BPS) based on their time of service.