HYDERABAD: Govt employees call for 50pc raise in salary
Bureau Report
HYDERABAD, June 14: The Sindh Employees Alliance (SEA) on Thursday rejected 15 per cent raise in the salaries of government employees and demanded that the government should give them 50 per cent dearness allowance and make uniform the salaries and allowances of teachers and other government employees working in rural and urban areas.
A meeting of SEA central action committee chaired by Mohammad Rafique Jarwar said that the raise was not commensurate with rising inflation and supported the struggle of lower staff and clerks association for their rights.
The meeting called for elimination of corruption from the education department and urged the government to order an inquiry conducted into the properties of corrupt officials.
The meeting decided to hold a demonstration outside the Hyderabad press club in the first week of July to press for the acceptance of their demands and convene a meeting of the alliance’s supreme council on June 21 to chalk out future curse of action.
The meeting adopted several resolutions demanding grant of teaching allowance, recruitment of teachers in primary and secondary schools and colleges and transfer of education department back to the provincial government.
A resolution called for reactivating teachers’ foundation, regularising ad hoc and contractual teachers and providing jobs to the children of teachers and other employees of education department.
