May 29, 2008	Thursday	Jamadi-ul-Awwal 23, 1429

FAISALABAD, May 28: The Academic Staff Association of the Government College University (GCU) has demanded that the university regularise the services of contract teachers and initiate a housing scheme for faculty members.

A general body meeting of the association here on Tuesday with its president Mudassar Butt in the chair unanimously approved the constitution of the association and formed a three-member election body headed by Mass Communication Department Director Dr AR Khalid. The election body would make arrangements for the annual election.

Members of the association said contract teachers were very much concerned about their future. They said the situation required the administration to refrain from further appointments and expedite efforts for the regularisation of contract faculty members. They asked the university administration to initiate a housing scheme for faculty members and give them loans for construction of their houses.

The association said some unscrupulous elements were using its name and dispatching letters to the chancellor against the people appointed on contract.