HYDERABAD, Nov 4: The Sindh High Court, Hyderabad circuit bench, the other day, issued notices to Secretary Education, Zila Nazim Nawabshah, Executive District Officer, Education, Nawabshah, SDEO Sakrand, on a constitutional petitions of 34 primary schoolteachers, who had moved the court against the non- payment of their salaries since June 2000.

The Additional AG Sindh has also been put on notice for November 7. The teachers had filed 34 separate petitions before the court mentioning the above officials as respondents. The petitioners claimed that there were complaints of corruption against the EDO, Education, and teachers associations had demanded of the government to hold inquiry against him.

They said that they were attending schools regularly and there were no complaints against them, nevertheless they were not paid their salaries without any reason. They claimed that they had also moved various applications to the high officials and met Zila Nazim, who is the district head of every department for getting their problem solved but in vain.

They added that the education officials were not performing their duties in accordance with law and discharging their duties to prepare bills for the payment of salaries. They said that they tried to know why their salaries had been stopped when there was no written or verbal order.