HYDERABAD, June 12: The All-Sindh Primary Teachers Association has warned the Sindh government that if its charter of demands was not accepted, it will launch a protest campaign and hold protest demonstrations in district headquarters of the province from June 28.
Speaking at a news conference at the press club on Sunday the central president of the association, Rafique Jarwar, general secretary, Ghalib Shah Rashdi, Safdar Ali Memon and Munir Bhatti said primary teachers who had been appointed on merit in 2001 had not been regularized.
They said the government had failed to implement teachers’ employment quota as well as the deceased quota.
They said though the government had promised to resolve problems of the teachers, it had not taken any practical steps in this regard.
They pointed out that in December 2001, 3,662 primary teacher were appointed on the contract basis for three years on a fixed salary of only Rs2,773 per month.
They claimed that the services of the teachers were acknowledged by the education minister and secretary.
They said the association had been assured that the services of the contract teachers would be regularized within six months but it had not been done.
—Bureau
