PESHAWAR:
The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa provincial government has approved the recruitment of 10,000 teachers on a temporary basis in boys’ and girls’ primary schools under the Parent-Teacher Council (PTC) framework, while the Finance Department has also granted permission for the hiring of 2,802 chowkidars to address staff shortages in government schools across the province.
According to official documents, the Elementary and Secondary Education Department has issued a detailed recruitment mechanism to Directors of Education and all District Education Officers (DEOs) following the decision taken in the 424th meeting of the provincial cabinet. The move aims to overcome acute teacher shortages at the primary level and ensure that each primary school has a minimum of four teachers.
Under the approved plan, recruitment in schools located in plain areas will commence from January 16, while the hiring process in cold and mountainous regions will begin in March due to weather conditions. For summer zone schools, teachers will be engaged from January 16 to May 31, 2026, for a period of five months, whereas winter zone schools will employ teachers from March 1 to June 30, 2026, for four months.
All appointments will be made strictly through PTCs from the officially notified talent pool, following a transparent and prescribed procedure. The performance of hired teachers will be evaluated through School-Based Assessment (SBA) of students. District Education Officers will categorize schools into summer and winter zones and forward funding requests to the Finance Department for the release of funds to the respective PTCs.
Authorities have clarified that these appointments will be purely temporary in nature, and the selected teachers will not be entitled to regularization or any future claim for permanent employment.
Meanwhile, in a separate but related development, the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Finance Department has approved the recruitment of 2,802 chowkidars for government schools across 28 districts, including Peshawar.
The approval was granted following repeated recommendations from the Education Department, which had highlighted severe shortages of security staff in schools.
