HYDERABAD, Aug 1: Teachers and instructors of the Rehabilitation Centre for Physically Handicapped Hyderabad have formed Action Committee to pursue their promotion and upgradation cases kept in limbo for last 27 years. The teachers called upon the government to treat them on a par with their counterparts in other provinces.

The Action Committee, in its maiden meeting, expressed concern over the move made by late Gen. Ziaul Haq for upgrading posts of Grade 16 and 17 of all teachers and instructors working in special children’s centres in 1981, while the same could not be implemented by the Sindh Social Welfare Department.

Trained graduates of these centres were given BPS-17, untrained BPS-16, under graduate BPS-14, and untrained under graduate BPS-11, which were complied by the Punjab, Balochistan, and the NWFP, the meeting observed.

Teachers’ posts in special children’s institution being run under the Sindh’s Education and Special Education Department were also upgraded, while in 2004 Punjab and NWFP had given allowance equivalent to basic pay.— Correspondent