HYDERABAD, March 7: A large number of college teachers, including women, marched from Government Muslim Science College to the Press Club on Tuesday in protest against government’s delay in meeting their demands.
The teachers taking part in the protest organised by Sindh Professors and Lecturers Association (SPLA) also staged a sit-in outside the club, which suspended traffic for over an hour.
Central general secretary SPLA, Professor Liaquat Aziz, Professor Agha Khalid Pathan, Professor Ghazanfar Ali Shah and others condemned the Sindh government and education department which they said had compelled teachers to take to streets.
They warned if their demands were not accepted by March 15, thousands of college teachers would stage protest demonstration on Karachi’s roads.
The demands included, among many others, confirmation of ad hoc teachers, end to victimization, filling 800 vacant posts in grade 18, 19 and 20 in the education department, lifting ban on transfers of teachers who had been employed through Sindh Public Service Commission in 2002, posting 120 principals, implementation of 1972 language bill for class-XI.
