HYDERABAD, Aug 4: In what appears to be apparent rift in the teachers and employees unwritten alliance against Sindh government’s ban on their associations, the Sindh Educational Alliance said on Friday it would not be a party to hunger strikes and putting locks on educational institutions.

The alliance organised a seminar on “The Role of Teachers’ Associations in the Improvement of Education” at the local press club which adopted an unanimous resolution that it would not be a party to hunger strikes and lockouts and would not participate in any negative activity that affected the cause of education.

The alliance’s chairman, Muneer Ahmed Bhatti, who is also the central president of Primary Teachers’ Association, said that about 150,000 members of the alliance were playing their role in the improvement of education.

The alliance had been instrumental in reopening many primary schools on self-help basis, which had been closed for many years, he said adding that the teachers were quite capable of achieving their rights through legal means and the power of their pen.

In a clear reference to the Sindh Employees Alliance, he said that his alliance did not believe in anti-education methods such as hunger strikes, “Gherao” of offices and putting locks on educational institutions.

Mr Bhatti alleged that some corrupt officers were behind such forms of protest and made it clear that the teachers were government employees and would not pursue any political agenda.

The seminar adopted several resolutions demanding employment for teachers’ children on merit basis, restoration of deceased and disabled persons’ quota and reopening of closed primary schools.