In a major action, the Sindh education department has stopped the disbursement of salaries for over 2,000 ghost teachers across the province, sources reported.
The Sindh education department wrote a letter to the provincial accountant general to stop the salaries of 2,019 ghost teachers.
Following the education department’s letter, the AG of Sindh seized the disbursement of salaries to the ghost teachers.
Sindh education secretary Akbar Laghari said they will sack the services of the teachers who are receiving their salaries by sitting at home.
Salary payments to 464 fake teachers in Qambar, Jacobabad, and Dadu, 144 ghost teachers in the districts of Karachi, Hyderabad, and Mirpurkhas, and 182 ghost instructors in Benazirabad have been stopped.
In addition, the salaries of 128 ghost instructors in Sanghar, 89 in Naushero Feroze, 128 in Shikarpur, and 155 in Larkana have been identified.
