Wednesday October 15, 2014
Kabul (BNA) Dr. Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan met yesterday with dozens of school teachers at the Presidential Palace.
Presidential press office stated BNA, at the meeting held with participation of acting Minister of Education Farooq Wardak, school teachers while congratulating the President on his election as President of Afghanistan enumerated a series of problems. They asked the President that laws on teachers and employees affairs for Ministry of Education were not somehow beneficial to teachers and in law of civil services, capacity building and promotion of teachers’ ranks up to a particular level were not useful for encouragement of teachers, so changes needed to be brought in the law. In the meeting, the teachers blamed the government for not providing shelters to school teachers, saying distribution of lands in remote areas of cities to teachers could not solve their problems, so it was good that the government puts end to the shelter problems of teachers through providing loans or installment.
The teachers also enumerated problems as lack of transportation services and low salaries. After hearing problems and suggestions of teachers, Dr. Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai said in place of praising school teachers, their problems would be basically solved within five years. Dr. Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai further said, “A commission has been tasked to solve the teachers and upon completing its work, its results will be declared in a ceremony held on the occasion of Teacher Day.” Related to increasing salaries of school teachers, President Ahmadzai asked the teachers to cooperate with the government in connection with counter corruption, so the teachers’ salaries would be increased. Dr. Ahmadzai recalled of full consideration to enhance quality of education, praising the teachers for saving the Education Ministry from political interventions. At the end of the meeting, President Ahmadzai said violence against women was not acceptable in all government institutions particularly in universities and academic foundations, adding they would take measure and punish the perpetrators in this regard.
