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NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, March 25: Hundreds of teachers took out a procession from main primary school to Allah Wala chowk, National Highway, and blocked the road for two hours here on Wednesday.
On the call of PTA Sindh, about 2,000 primary teachers reached main primary school Naushahro Feroze. PTA Sindh president Muhammad Rafique Jarwar, PTA Sindh general secretary Nazeer Ahmed Sehto and former president PTA Sindh Intezar Hussain Chhalgari addressed the protesters.
They said that police staff and clerks were being awarded qualification increments but the teachers were deprived of it. They complained that scales were revised in 1991, 1994, 1997 and 2001, but the house rent of teachers was being calculated on 1991 scale.
They said the services of teachers of community schools of phase-I were confirmed but not of those employed in phase-II. They said PTA had submitted a charter of demands to Sindh education minister Irfan Marwat and he had promised to consider the charter sympathetically.
However, the minister later changed his mind and was not responding positively. They urged the Sindh government to accept their demands forthwith. The protesting teachers also burnt an effigy of Sindh education minister.
HOUSEWIFE KILLED: Thieves killed a housewife when she offered resistance in Dheran, near Moro, late Monday night.
Four thieves had barged into the house of Achar Behan. The inmates woke up and offered resistance. The thieves opened fire, as a result of which Ms Sayani, 25, wife of Achar Behan, was seriously injured. She was taken to Taluka Hospital Moro, where she died.
