MANSEHRA: Adviser to the chief minister on culture and tourism Zafar Mehmood on Monday said women teachers would be posted to schools in their hometowns.

“During a recent meeting, I informed the chief minister that many women school teachers are distressed about working in districts other than their own. He understood the issue and promised the early issuance of an order to post women teachers to their hometowns,” Mr Mehmood told a group of such teachers at the Circuit House here.

The visitors, who belonged to Torghar, Kohistan and Mansehra districts, told the CM’s aide that the education department had posted scores of women teachers from Mansehra district to Torghar and Kohistan districts for decades.

Mr Mehmood said the caretaker government was trying to identify and cancel teacher postings and transfers on a political basis.

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He said teachers struggled to deliver the goods for being subjected to “political victimisation.”

The CM’s adviser later told reporters that authorities had taken the encroachment issue in Mansehra district seriously and were ensuring effective steps to address it.

“I will meet officials of the district and tehsil administrations, National Highway Authority and other relevant departments soon to finalize anti-encroachment drives for Mansehra, Balasko and Ogham tehsils,” he said.

Source: Dawn