KARACHI, Dec 5: The Sindh Professors and Lecturers’ Association has expressed concern over the execution of Information Technology programmes at intermediate level in city colleges and demanded of the governor and education minister to take necessary actions.

The Karachi chapter of the teachers’ body discussed the developments so far made regarding the implementation of the IT course at the colleges for which every students has been charged Rs1,000 extra, while the government failed to provide any matching amount for the purpose so far, said a press release.

The teachers’ representatives, who met here with Prof Athar Mirza in the chair, lamented the statements of senior education officers responsible for implementation of the IT programmes at college and maintained that the pace of setting up of necessary laboratories and provision of equipments, including computers, and availability of subject teachers, was not up to the mark.

The meeting doubted that theory as well as practical of IT subject at many colleges and higher secondary schools would either remain unseen or incomplete and finally the students would have to bear the brunt of the inefficiency of the education department.

The meeting also demanded a detail enquiry in the IT project, as, according to the teachers, some irregularities were observed in this regard.