PESHAWAR: Ad hoc lecturers from Fata have expressed grave concern over the delay in regularisation of their services and warned to boycott duty till acceptance of their demand.

The lecturers, serving in various colleges of Fata, have set up a protest camp outside Peshawar Press Club and displayed banners and placards inscribed with demands regarding regularisation of their service.

Talking to media persons at the protest camp on Sunday, Nasir Ali, information secretary of the Fata Ad hoc Lecturers Association, said that two batches of lecturers had been recruited in 2010 and 2011 by the government. “The first batch of 2010 was regularised through a bill moved in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly on May 12, 2014, but those appointed in 2011 were awaiting their regularisation.” Nasir Ali said that 225 ad hoc lecturers, both male and female, had been awaiting regularisation.

He said that most lecturers had become overage and were unable to get any other government job. “The government should regularise our services and give us all the incentives given to rest of employees in Fata,” he pleaded.

The lecturers’ leader threatened that if the government didn’t pay attention to their demand, they would observe a hunger strike outside the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly.

He said that when jobs were insecure and the prices of daily use items were rising sharply, the ad hoc lecturers were unable to meet their routine expenditures with present salaries.

Nasir Ali asked the elected representatives of Fata to play their due role in solution to their problems.

Published in Dawn, April 13th, 2015

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