PESHAWAR: Employees of all the seven boards of intermediate and secondary education in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa stopped work and locked offices against proposed reforms.
The strike badly affected ongoing matriculation examinations across the province.
The elementary and secondary education department has proposed a lot of changes in the existing structure and mechanism of the education boards, said chairman of the Board of Employees Coordination Council Tariq Safi.
“If the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Boards of Elementary and Secondary Examination Bill 2018 is passed by the assembly, it will replace the existing calendar of the board.”
He said the board employees were not opposed to reforms and instead wanted all that not to happen at the cost of their interests.
Under the proposed reforms, the board employees will be transferable among seven boards.
“This decision is unacceptable to us,” he said, adding that currently the employees are nontransferable. Mr Safi also said the proposed reforms would block the promotion of board employees, who weren`t promoted from BPS-17, and thus, paving the way for the posting of the federal and provincial bureaucracy to key positions.
He said in the name of reforms, the education department wanted to centralize the examination system in the province, which was currently done on the divisional level through education boards.