HYDERABAD, June 8: Supporting the demands and struggle of the Sindh Employees Alliance, the Sindh Professors and Lecturers Association at a meeting held here on Thursday announced to observe a token hunger strike with effect from June 15 outside the Karachi Press Club and from June 16 at the Hyderabad Press Club.
At a meeting held here on Thursday, leaders of the SPLA criticised the appointment of an outsider as provincial education manager.
They said that except for college teachers, no outsider would be accepted on any administrative post and resolved to resist the appointment of any outsider.
Agha Khalid presided over the meeting.
SEA general secretary Professor Liaquat Aziz, Siddique Unnar and Yaqoob Chandio were present on the occasion.
The meeting adopted several resolutions demanding the filling of 2,000 vacant posts of college teachers in grade-18, 19 and 20, promotion of librarians and DPEs in upgraded posts, payment of difference in pay in move-over cases, confirmation of 741 ad hoc lecturers and reinstatement of 20 lecturers of the Government Girls College Qasimabad.
It demanded that the EDO (education) and the chairman of the Sukkur education board should be removed, education boards should be transferred to the education department, vacant posts of principals should be filled and retired officers of educational boards should be removed.
HDA: The Hyderabad Development Authority has called upon people to remove building material from roads and streets after construction of their houses.
A spokesman of HDA said on Thursday that the building material lying on roads and streets was hampering smooth flow of traffic.
He said that if the building material was not removed, the building control department would not only remove the material at the cost of owners of houses, but also institute legal proceedings against them under the law, the punishment for which was Rs20,000 fine or two years rigorous imprisonment or both.
VACATIONS: The registrar of the University of Sindh announced on Thursday that summer vacation for the institutes and departments of the university would commence from June 10.
The directors and chairpersons of all the institutes and departments would be available at their offices two days a week on Monday and Tuesday during the vacations, he said.
Deans of all the faculties would also remain on duty as usual, he said.
