TOBA TEK SINGH: The All Pakistan Universities Basic Payscale Teachers Association has strongly reacted to the detraction of the Higher Education Commission from its agreement made with the association and said it may now go for a sit-in in front of the HEC office in Islamabad or boycott classes in universities across the country.

Engineer Dr Hafsa Jamshaid, the spokesperson for the association, told reporters in Faisalabad on Tuesday that the agreement was made in the presence of the Islamabad commissioner and notified on March 12.

Under this agreement, the HEC was committed to processing the BPS statutes by the mid of May but it failed to honour its commitment.

She said BPS teachers would not wait for their equal rights of promotion that were enjoyed by all other employees of the HEC and university employees, including the TTS teachers. She said these discriminatory actions of the HEC were no more tolerable.

“If the basic right of promotion is granted in the HEC Ordinance and ESTACODE, why is it not permissible for BPS teachers,” she said and added the lukewarm attitude and delaying tactics by the HEC were no more acceptable.

UAF: The University of Agriculture, Faisalabad (UAF), has opened its portal to the online applications for the entrance test of undergraduate programmes.

The last date to submit the entrance test registration fee is May 27 whereas the last date to upload the documents for registration is May 28.

The test will be held on June 5 for which centres have been established in Faisalabad, Lahore, Gujranwala, Rawalpindi, Sargodha, Layyah, Multan, Rahim Yar Khan, Bahawalpur, Toba Tek Singh, Burewala, and Depalpur.

The candidates who are appearing in the intermediate (part-II) equivalent examination or have passed the intermediate examinations can apply for admission to undergraduate degrees of the university at the main campus and its sub-campuses at Toba Tek Singh, Burewala and Depalpur.

ACCIDENT: A woman died and her husband was injured critically when a bus hit their motorcycle on Tuesday near Chak Kohal Kalan at Pirmahal.

Deceased Mumtaz Bibi and her wounded husband Syed Ajmal were of Kabirwala.

Ajmal was shifted to the Toba Tek Singh District Headquarters Hospital.

INJURED: Two construction workers were injured critically when the roof of an under-construction building caved in on Tuesday at Faisalabad’s Shadipura locality.

Both were at work when the roof fell on them.

Rescue 1122 staffers shifted them to the DHQ Hospital. They were identified as Javed Sultan and Ghulam Murtaza.

Published in Dawn, May 18th, 2022