HYDERABAD, Oct 18: The Principals Coordination Committee and Sindh Professors and Lecturers Association has demanded that the provincial minister for education should be removed forthwith as, according to them, she was bent upon destroying the entire educational system.

The demand to this effect was made at a joint meeting of the principals of different colleges of Hyderabad and Mirpurkhas divisions, as well as the office-bearers of the SPLA, held here on Thursday.

Professor Maqsood Ahmed Qureshi presided over the meeting.

Addressing the meeting, Professor Liaquat Aziz, Kafeel Ahmed Khanzada, Professor Arif Shaikh, Professor Shams Uqeli, Professor Fatima Shakeela, Professor Saeeda Bashir and others criticized the policies of the provincial education minister.

The meeting adopted several resolutions and rejected the privatization policy underway on behalf of the government and demanded the abolition of self-financing admission scheme.

The meeting demanded that information technology as a subject should be made optional as long as the subject specialists and formal equipment are not available with the institutions.

In another resolution, they demanded the appointment of senior college teachers as EDOs and added that separate EDOs should be appointed for colleges.

In yet another resolution, the meeting demanded that the shortage to teachers, books, furniture and laboratory equipment should be addressed by the government on priority basis.

They also demanded the transfer of EDO Hyderabad, Mirza Aijaz Baig.

The meeting demanded restoration of move-over, selection grade and advance increments in the new pay scales with effect from June 1, 2001. It also demanded that notification in respect of the remaining promotions in grade-18, 19 and 20 should be issued without any delay.