09 March 2005	Wednesday	27 Muharram 1426

HYDERABAD, March 8: Leaders of the Sindh Professors and Lectures Association have demanded that the Sindh government should fill 2,000 vacant posts of college teachers through the Sindh Public Service Commission and issue notification about promotions in grade-18, 19 and 20.

They were speaking at a news conference at the press club here on Tuesday. They said that many problems of the college teachers were lying unresolved for years which had created unrest among them.

They appealed to Sindh Education Minister Dr Hameeda Khuhro and secretary education Hashim Laghari to resolve the problems without any delay. SPLA founder Prof Liaquat Aziz said about 507 posts in grade-18, 19 and 20 had already been approved under the four-tier formula and therefore the college teachers should be given promotions on vacant posts.

He demanded that those college teachers who had already been granted move-over should be paid difference and 33 per cent posts of librarians. He demanded that salaries and allowances of the college teachers be increased commensurate with the ratio of inflation and they should be given 45 per cent house rent.

He demanded that in-charge principals of the colleges should be confirmed, 2,000 vacant posts of college teachers be filled through the SPSC and chairman, secretaries, controllers of examinations and inspectors of colleges should be appointed from amongst senior in-service professors and retired officers should be removed.

The SPLA leaders stressed the need for reintroducing 32-year-old procedure for teaching compulsory Urdu subject to Sindhi students and Sindhi subject to Urdu-speaking students for students of class-XI.