HYDERABAD, May 14: The employees of the Sindh Agriculture University Tando Jam on the call of the Employees Action Committee continued their protest for the third consecutive day here on Wednesday by boycotting work and raising slogans against the vice chancellor.
The entire work of the university was disrupted as the employees held a sit-in outside the vice chancellor’s block, raising slogans against the vice chancellor and the retired officials.
The leaders of the Employees Action Committee, Syed Abdul Majeed Shah Rashidi, Hussain Bux Veesar, Nouman Bhutto, and Karam Punno alleged that the vice chancellor was planning to register false cases against the leaders of the action committee to get them arrested.
It was learnt from reliable sources that the talks between the committee appointed by the vice chancellor and the Action Committee have also broken down. A heavy contingent of police was deployed at the campus.
UNIVERSITY CLARIFIES: Meanwhile, the university has clarified that the regular examinations of second-term students were scheduled to be held from May 19 for which the examination forms were being filled.
The administration, however, said that as usual, the illegal action committee of employees was trying to destroy the peaceful educational atmosphere and was black-mailing the administration through strikes to achieve their personal ends.
A statement signed by the PRO of the university said that the action committee had raised unnecessary demands, which had already been accepted.
The statement claimed that nevertheless the vice chancellor, Dr Bashir Ahmed Chandio, had already constituted a committee comprising deans of faculties to hold talks with the employees and examine their problems.
