LAHORE; July 5: The Punjab Educators Association has decided to observe a token hunger strike against government’s indifference towards 50,000 contract educators while increasing pay and benefits of government employees.

The educators will observe the strike in front of the Lahore Press Club on Thursday (today).

PEA leaders Muhammad Safdar, Abdul Razzaq Niazi, Hafiz Ghulam Ali Awan and others said the government had enhanced assembly members’ salaries by 300 per cent and government employees’ salaries by 75 per cent during the last three years.

They said the daily use items and other commodities’ prices had been increasing regularly while the educators’ salaries had not been revised for the last four years.

They demanded that the government should regularise their services and allow them dearness allowance.