TOBA TEK SINGH, June 10: Agriculture Department’s field assistants observed a complete strike and staged a protest demonstration outside their office here on Tuesday.

Addressing the protesters outside the agriculture deputy director’s office, Field Assistants Association President Azhar Ayub said in Sindh field assistants had been promoted from grade 6 to 11 and agriculture inspectors from grade 9 to 12, but in Punjab they had been asked to appear in various courses and examinations for their promotion which was unjustified.

He demanded that a notification for their promotion should be issued without any examination. He announced that the strike would continue till the acceptance of their demand.

ACCIDENT: A villager was crushed to death by a bus in Pirmahal late on Mondasy. Jeewan Khan was going to Chak 751-GB when a bus coming from Faisalabad hit his bicycle, killing him on the spot. — Correspondent