Around 300 schoolteachers in northeastern Badakhshan have not been paid salary for the last five months, an official said on Monday.
Merajuddin Rahimi, the education department spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News that 299 teachers, including 78 females, had not been paid salaries in Maimai district due to insecurity.
He said the issue had been shared with the provincial police headquarters and the Ministry of Defense to shift salaries of teachers via helicopters, but there was no response.
Parwiz Sayeedi, the Maimai district education head, told Pajhwok, “Teachers of the district have nothing to buy something for their families. They don’t have farmland.”
He added the teachers faced multiple problems due to not receiving their salaries for five months.
Sadruddin, a financial official at the district’s schools, said they had no issue with teachers’ salaries at the revenue department but they faced problems in transferring salaries from Faizabad, the provincial capital, to the faraway district.
Meanwhile, the governor’s spokesman Naik Mohammad Nazari told Pajhwok that the district’s tribal elders and influential figures had shared the teachers’ salaries issue with Governor Mohammad Zikrya Sawda.
He said the governor had assured the elders that the salaries would be airlifted to the district in near future. He said the issue had been also discussed with security officials.