HYDERABAD, Oct 12: Member of the Sindh Professors and Lecturers Association on Tuesday observed a black day throughout the province in protest against what they called inordinate delay in the acceptance of their demands.

They wore black armbands and hoisted black flags on the college buildings. A general body meeting of the association was held in the Government College in Kari Mori.

Speaking on the occasion, the secretary general of the association, Prof Agha Khalid, Prof Anwar Sagar, Prof Sher Khan Salero and Prof Mobinur Rehman said college teachers of Sindh were being discriminated against.

They said the regular promotions were being given to college teachers in Punjab and other provinces but teachers of Sindh were being kept on false promises. They said the Sindh education minister at a meeting held on Aug 16 had assured the SPLA leaders that their demands were genuine and all their problems would be resolved within 14 days.

They regretted that even the meeting of the department's promotion committee had not been held after two months for the promotion of 1,000 college teachers. They said the orders in 400 move-over cases had also not been issued.

They said not a single problem of the college teacher had been resolved. They announced that thousands of teachers would converge at the D.J Science College on Oct 14 and lay a siege to the Sindh chief minister's house.

SP&SSA: The Sindh Professors and Subject Specialists Association at a meeting held here on Tuesday criticized the appointment of junior teachers to the posts of principals of higher secondary schools.