HYDERABAD, June 28: Teachers of primary schools took out processions and held demonstrations in different parts of Sindh on Tuesday for acceptance of their demands. The Primary Teachers Association, Sindh, had given the call for the protest.

The teachers’ demands include regularization of services of teachers working on contract, restoration of job quota of children of teachers and award of MA increment.

In Hyderabad, a large number of teachers held a demonstration outside the press club.

Speaking on the occasion, association president Mohammad Rafiq Jarwar and Munir Ahmad Bhatti said injustices were being committed against primary teachers. They said authorities had compelled them to come out on the roads against non-acceptance of their demands.

They waned that if services of contract teachers were not regularized and teachers’ children employment quota was not restored, primary teachers of the province would hold a protest demonstration outside the Karachi Press Club on July 7 and besiege the Sindh secretariat.

Reports from Tando Mohammad Khan said primary and mosque school teachers and the Jamiatul Madraseen also held a demonstration outside the local press club.

Shafi Sathio and Abdul Razzaq Chandio spoke on the occasion.

NAWABSHAH: Hundreds of teachers took out a procession and held a demonstration opposite the press club here.