Teachers Accuses Chief Monitoring Officer and Staff unfair Biometric Attendance Amid Protests
The schools being non-functional due to protests and students not attending classes, CMO and monitoring staff are unfairly marking teachers absent for corruption alleged.
Independent News
KARACHI: Protests by government employees across Sindh continue as preparations are underway for a massive sit-in at Bilawal House on October 6.
Meanwhile, serious allegations have been leveled against the Education Department’s monitoring staff, particularly Chief Monitoring Officer (CMO) Kainat and her team.
Teachers claimed that despite schools being non-functional due to protests and students not attending classes, monitoring staff are unfairly marking them absent through the biometric system to blackmail teachers for corruption-related motives.
Leaders of GSTA (Government Secondary Teachers Association) alleged that during school visits, CMOs and their staff resort to intimidation and threats, completing the absence-marking process within minutes. Teachers have condemned this as an “illegal tactic” and staged strong protests.
The teachers have suggested CMOs and their teams of Monitoring and Evaluation of Education Department Government of Sindh, this is not only the matter of teachers but overall Sindh government employees, they must put aside ego and vested interests, they should active in protests have the same objectives. But before this resolve the pension issue of employees and save education of students.
On the other hand, the province-wide protest against the new pension rules has entered its second week. Union leaders have warned that if their demands are not accepted, millions of employees will stage a sit-in outside Bilawal House on October 6.
