Afghanistan Ministry of Education continues its efforts to bring transparency by establishing mobile phone salary system

The Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology of Afghanistan signed contracts for mobile phone salary payments of about120,000 teachers with two telecommunication companies in Kabul. The contract for monthly salaries of 43,000 teachers from Kabul was signed with Afghan Wireless and another contract for 76,000 teachers from Herat, Paktia, Balkh, Badakhshan, Khost and Laghman provinces was signed with Roshan. A pilot phase of the mobile salary payment scheme started six months ago in Parwan, Kandahar and Nangarhar provinces, covering 32,000 employees of the Ministry of Education including teachers. The process has proven successful and is now being expanded, said a representative of the education ministry. After registering for the mobile phone money system, teachers will be able to draw their salaries from the telecommunication companies branches, stores where the companies have agents, banks where the companies have contracts, and in some areas teachers will be able to get their salaries from vendors who sell mobile phone top up cards. One reason for establishing this system is to prevent corruption and misuse of salary payments.
The Ministry of Communication and Information Technology said that soon will be a tender for companies for the same system for a further 120,000 employees of the Ministry of Education.