LARKANA, June 1: The fate of 600 adhoc lecturers of Sindh hangs in the balance as summery of their regularisation is lying with the Sindh chief minister since March for approval and their salaries have been held up since January.

The Adhoc Lecturers’ Action Committee which met here on Friday said some three months back provincial education minister had sent the summery to Sindh’s chief minister which was yet not approved.

Lecturers soon after appointed were posted in different colleges but till today they had been waiting for salaries, the committee noted. They would wait for another six months for the approval, they said.

Criticising the red-tapism, they said the Sindh government can recruit 2,000 more lecturers as it had enough of resources. But it had become a regular feature for adhoc lecturers to wait for six months’ extension to get their salaries.

The action committee members Muhammed Shuttal Bozdar, Manzoor Kalhoro and others met Sindh education minister on March 28 and again on May 19 in Karachi and Sukkur, respectively. She assured of getting the summery approved by the CM.

They said all adhoc lecturers appointed in the NWFP were regularised on November 10, 2005 through a notification No:SO (Colleges)2-5/2005, while in Balochstan 3,600 were regularised on December 18, 2006.