Karachi, the appointment process of the teachers for primary, junior and high schools is under process in which about 18, 248 teachers will be appointed through their entry test and other pre-requisites for the appointment.

The Sindh Education and Literacy Department invited applications from the eligible candidates through their advertisements during April this year. They received about 700,000 applications from the candidates. In the beginning they charged Rs.300 with the applications as processing fee but after that the processing fee was reduced to Rs.30. The Reforms Support Unit of the Education Department of Sindh sought necessary proposal for conducting tests of the applicants.

On November 20, an agreement was signed between National testing System and the Reforms Support Unit to conduct the entry test of the candidates. Now NTS has announced that they are going to make preparation for the test of the candidates and the test will be conducted during December. After the test the candidates who qualified the test will be appointed as teachers. When the date for the test will be finalized then it will be intimated to the candidates who are short-listed by the Reforms Support Unit of the Education Department.