Education Department to fill 4,960 empty posts till July 30th

Rawalpindi: The education department of Punjab will fill 4,960 empty posts in various categories across the province, including Rawalpindi Division.

Earlier, the Punjab Education Department had announced that there were 4,960 posts lying unfilled in different areas.

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The staff will be employed on almost 162 empty seats across the Rawalpindi Division.

There are 1,530 posts of assistant education officers, 2,805 posts of secondary school teachers, 700 posts of education officers, 35 posts of data entry operators while 70 posts of drivers.

The Punjab Education Department has ordered the concerned authorities to complete the hiring process till July 30^th, 2017 in the all sectors.

This decision has been taken to deal along with the prevailing staff shortage in education department. Earlier, the teachers' unions had urged the government to deal along with the shortage of staff in government sector educational institutes.

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They had said that this was important to improve the performance of these schools and colleges.