August 24, 2002	Saturday	Jamadi-us-Saani 14, 1423

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RAWALPINDI, Aug 23: The Punjab Professors and Lecturers Association (PPLA) has warned that its members will boycott all election and examination duties if the proposal for introducing a Board of Governor (BoGs) for colleges is not withdrawn.

The PPLA at a meeting here on Friday unanimously passed a resolution rejecting any role of industrialists, politicians and philanthropists in the education sector. Participants termed all such proposals as a conspiracy against thousands of poor college students.

The teachers also demanded extension in the contracts of about 150 lecturers teaching in eight girls degree colleges of the city. The contracts of these teachers as well as those of a hundred of other servants would expire at the end of August.

There are 11,000 students in the eight colleges located at G and F blocks of Satellite Town, Dhok Hassu, Dhok Ratta, Mohinpura, Zafarul Haq Road, Dhok Illahi Bakhsh and Muslim Town.

PPLA president Mohammad Ilyas said the colleges would open on August 26. The teachers would not take classes if their employment was not confirmed, he said and added, the students would suffer as a result.

The teachers also urged the government to solve the issue of promotion of about thousand teachers who had been stuck in Grade- 17 for the last 15 years despite vacancies in higher grades.

They also asked the government to take action against those responsible for burglary at the Government Girls College on Peshawar Road.

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