KARACHI: Teachers slam seniority list, plan protests
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, March 14: The Sindh Professors and Lecturers’ Association has demanded of the government to immediately revoke the seniority list of college teachers issued on March 11.
Speaking at a press conference on Thursday, the office bearers of the SPLA, expressed the view that the list which contained the names of 612 male and 400 female teachers had been issued against norms, ignoring the past practices.
They said that the names of teachers of the two cadres had been merged, while the names of 47 college teachers selected for promotion to higher grades had been brought at the positions lower than 87.
The SPLA Sindh president, Sirajuddin Qazi, also questioned the date of birth of a couple of teachers, one of them a higher education officer. He said that the officer in question had been mentioned at the beginning of the seniority list with 1946 as his year of birth and 1965 as his year of appointment to the service, which meant that after getting his of Masters degree he became college lecturer at the age of 19, which was ridiculous.
They also questioned the working of the education minister and the secretary of the education department and demanded their removal from their respective posts. The association also demanded immediate issuance of promotion and move-over orders of the teachers whose cases are in pending.
Mr Siraj also unfolded his association’s protest programme, commencing on March 16.
Later, a leader of the college teachers, Prof Riaz Ahsan, informed journalists that about 5 per cent of the admissions to colleges last year were in violation of the merit lists prepared by the centralised admission committee of the government.
He said that the SPLA, which had got their representatives in the committee as well, had presented sufficient evidence to the competent authorises regarding unauthorised admissions but no enquiry or action could be initiated as the admission committee was declared defunct and was also asked to do away with its role of monitoring the process of admissions.
