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HYDERABAD, April 4: Sindh minister for education Mr Irfanullah Marwat is reported to have assured the Sindh Professors and Subject Specialists Association that the problems of the teachers of higher secondary schools will be resolved as soon as possible.
A spokesman for the association, in a statement issued here on Friday said that a delegation of the association comprising Prof Gul Hassan Mirjat, Prof Mubarak Kaim Khani, Prof Iqbal and others met with Mr Marwat in his office the other day and apprised him of the problems confronting the teachers of higher secondary schools of the province.
The delegation demanded that the MEd increments were a legal right of the subject specialists, which should not be denied to them.
The delegation further pleaded that like college teachers, subject specialists serving in backward areas should also be given 15 per cent teaching allowance, grade 18, 19 and 20 posts, which had been lying vacant for quite sometime, should be filled without delay in accordance with 4-tier promotion formula and all the higher secondary schools, upgraded since 1994 should be issued SNE (Summary for New Establishment).
The delegation also demanded that the posts of headmasters in the higher secondary schools should be re-designated as principals.
The spokesman claimed that the minister gave a very patient hearing to the delegation and assured that all the problems confronting the teachers would be resolved.
PML(Q): Social activists, Waheed Kiran Shoro of Qasimabad and Mujtaba Shah of Khipro, Sanghar, have joined the Pakistan Muslim League (Q) along with their friends and followers.
The announcement was made by them at the local press club while speaking at a press conference on Friday. The provincial vice-president of the party, Syed Shahabuddin Shah Hussaini, and the local leadership of the party were also present. Mr Shoro is the brother of Qasimabad Taluka Nazim Noor Mohammad Shoro, who is affiliated with PPP.
The activists said that the main purpose of their joining the ruling party was to serve the people from the PML(Q) platform. They said that they had been working for the people from the platforms of NGOs but added that due to shortage of funds, they were unable to initiate any development scheme.
Mr Shoro said that in Qasimabad Taluka, the health and the education sectors had been totally neglected and added that the headmasters and the teachers remained absent from schools most of the time, while the health centres had been converted into guest houses of Waderas. He said, all these matters needed the attention of the government for which he had joined the ruling party.
Speaking on the occasion, Mr Hussaini welcomed the newcomers to the party and said sincere workers were needed for resolving the problems of the people.
Answering a question about the reported rift in the provincial high command of the party, Mr Hussaini said that Sardar Ghous Bux Khan Mahar was the president of the Sindh chapter of the party, and added that he had neither resigned nor had been replaced by the central president of the party, Choudhry Shujaat Hussain.
