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RAWALPINDI - The Punjab Government has reportedly decided to impose complete ban on teachers’ unions.

According to sources in the Education Department, the ban will be imposed from January, 2016 at the beginning of new-year. The sources said that a notification in this connection will be issued in Decmber, 2015. Decision is taken in the light of the Lahore High court (LHC) order for banning employees’ organisation in nine educational boards in the province and in view of the deteriorating standard of education.

Punjab government officials are of the opinion that the Punjab educational institutions are not commercial and free education is provided there while there are more than 25 categories of unions in Punjab institutions, some of them comprising only one or two teachers.

The government view point is that leaders of the teachers’ union do not perform their academic responsibilities and under the garb of organisational activities, they carry out their private businesses and teach in private schools and academies. They said due to strikes, the educational system has been paralysed and students of the government run schools do not secure positions in results of educational boards. They said that due to teachers’ union, the educational atmosphere is vitiated and the standard of education has deteriorated.

Leaders of teachers’ unions/association while confirming the report said that the government was already implementing this policy. In the first phase several leaders of the associations have been removed under different charges. They however said that they would resist such a move and knock the door of the court.

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