HYDERABAD, April 9 Students of Technical College Hyderabad under the banner of Students Action Committee mostly belonging to Jeay Sindh Students Federation held a demonstration and a sit-in outside the press club on Thursday in protest against proposed privatisation of institutes of technical education and the Sindh Board of Technical Education.

JSSF central president Habib Bhutto and other party office-bearers said that the technical college was being privatised and spadework on its privatisation had already started.

They warned that it would not be allowed under any circumstances and said that the rulers were depriving the poor students of Sindh of their right to education and forcing them to commit suicide.

They said that the students would now hold demonstrations across the province against the privatisation of educational institutions and besiege residences of rulers.

JOB SEEKERS The candidates who had passed an IBA-conducted test for primary schoolteacher jobs held a demonstration outside the press club in protest against delay in issuance of posting orders and re-holding of test for the same posts on April 26.

The protesters who belonged to Tharparkar district said that they had received offer letters last year but then the withheld issuance of posting orders.

They said that hundreds of qualified candidates had been deprived of jobs and demanded that the test scheduled for April 26 should be postponed and their problem should be solved immediately.

They appealed to the Chief Justice of Pakistan to take notice of the injustice.

JI Amir of Jamaat-i-Islami`s Hyderabad chapter Moulana Abdul Waheed Qureshi said on Thursday that ongoing recruitment for primary schoolteachers, junior schoolteachers and high schoolteachers was based on corruption as the original criteria for recruitment had been changed without any announcement.

He said in a statement said that the new recruitments were being made when the JSTs who were appointed eight months ago were protesting on the roads against non-payment of salaries.

He criticised change in criteria for the appointment of teachers and termed it murder of merit.