August 14, 2008	Thursday	Sha'aban 11, 1429

HYDERABAD, Aug 13: The Sindh Professors and Lecturers Association (SPLA) has called upon the chief minister and the education minister to regularise the services of ad hoc college teachers and put into practice the decisions taken at a meeting between the SPLA and the minister on July 2.

The association’s Sindh council, which met here on Tuesday under its chairman, Prof Liaquat Aziz, expressed concern over delay in resolution of ad hoc teachers’ problems and demanded that the Sindh government should regularise the services of ad hoc teachers and release their salaries on the pattern of Punjab, NWFP and Balochistan.

The meeting said that the vacant posts in grade-18, 19 and 20 in several colleges should be filled through promotions and a covering notification to this effect should be issued immediately.

The meeting demanded that the show-cause notices issued to teachers during the Arbab government and the orders of forced leave should be withdrawn and victimisation of college teachers should be stopped.

The meeting demanded that on the pattern of university teachers, the college teachers should also be upgraded, outstanding dues of retired teachers should be paid without delay and salaries of college teachers serving in urban and rural areas should be made uniform.

The meeting demanded that the educational boards of the province should be placed under the control of the education department, retired officers hired on contract by the boards should be removed and replaced with in-service senior professors.

The meeting said that the officers serving on own pay scale should be repatriated to their original posts and the librarians and DPEs should be promoted to next scale.