KARACHI, March 16: The Sindh Professors and Lecturers Association (SPLA) on Thursday took out a rally from the DJ Sindh Govt Science College and staged a sit-in outside the Sindh Secretariat building for acceptance of their demands regarding regularization of the lecturers recruited on ad hoc basis.

Earlier, SPLA leaders at the general body meeting at the college criticized the attitude of the Sindh education department and charged that it was showing reluctance in accepting the just demands of the teachers and resolving problems facing them.

They said that the NWFP government had regularized over 250 teachers, recruited on ad hoc basis and demanded of the Sindh education department to also regularize college teachers of Sindh.

Speaking on the occasion, SPLA Sindh President Prof Syed Riaz Ahsan said that even salaries were not being paid to the ad hoc lecturers for the last one and half month.

He also demanded lifting of ban on transfer of teachers recruited in 2002.

Later, SPLA office-bearers and teachers took out a rally from the DJ College to the Sindh Secretariat building and held a sit-in in front of the building.

Meanwhile, Sindh Chief Secretary Fazlur Rahman invited SPLA representatives for talks at his office and on his assurance the SPLA postponed their protest campaign till March 22.—PPI