HYDERABAD, Aug 31: A large number of secondary school teachers of Hyderabad district held a demonstration in front of the press club here on Sunday in protest against the inordinate delay in their promotion.

Speaking on the occasion, the district president of the Government School Teachers Association, Zamir Khan, said that a step-motherly treatment was being meted out to the secondary teachers of Hyderabad district in respect of their statutory promotions.

He said that although legal formalities had been completed yet the teachers were being denied of their promotions for the last four years.

He said many posts were lying vacant but a meeting of the departmental promotion committee was not being held although relevant documents had been submitted four months back.

He criticised the Executive District Officer education for forced transfer of teachers from one place to the other in order to accommodate his own favourites and added that these transfers were absolutely illegal.

He demanded that these transfers, particularly of women teachers, be cancelled, the departmental promotion committee for the promotion of 100 teachers be held without delay and the teachers, who belonged to other districts, be repatriated to their home districts.