FAISALABAD, April 2: Teacher organizations and clerical staff associations will stage a joint sit-in in front of the offices of the executive district officer (education) on Tuesday against government policies and the pathetic attitude of education functionaries in connection with the matters of the teaching community.

The Punjab Teachers Union, the Senior Staff Association, the District Headmasters Association, Faisalabad, Muttahida Teachers Mahaz, Clerical Staff Association, Faisalabad, and some other organizations have blamed the government for putting important matters of the teaching community in cold storage.

Talking to newsmen on Friday, teacher leaders including Hafiz Ghulam Mohyuddin, Abdul Nasir, Haji Riaz Ahmad, Shaikh Ashfaq and Mian Aslam Raza said over 4,250 cases of teachers regarding their promotion, moveover, increment, retirement and medical had been lying unattended in the EDO's offices for the last so many years due to indifferent attitude of the officials concerned.

They said the instructions by the provincial education highups were also not being implemented just to harass the teachers. They claimed that they had approached the government functionaries for a number of times, but to no avail.

The teacher leaders said the government had evolved highly objectionable and unpractical policies on the recommendations of inexperienced advisers.

They claimed the governor had set up boards of governors for 13 more educational institutions in violation of the agreement between the teachers and the government.