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MULTAN, Oct 17: School and college teachers on Thursday continued protest rallies across the Punjab against the denationalization of educational institutions.
In Multan, hundreds of school and college teachers staged a protest rally against the introduction of board of governors at the state-run educational institutions.
The protesting teachers gathered at the Civil Lines College under the banner of the Joint Action Committee of various representative organizations of the teaching community.
They held a protest meeting at the college which was addressed by Syed Tanvir Shah, Mehmooda Irfan Wyne, Rana Walayat, Mehdi Hasan Tariq, Ramzan Malik, Razzaq Shahid and others.
The speakers vowed to carry on their struggle against the wholesale of education through the board of governors.
The BoGs, they claimed, would close the doors of educational institutions for the poor man’s child on the one hand and jeopardise the job security of teachers on the other. They also criticized the policy of contractual postings.
The significant development of the teachers’ movement was that the teaching staff of institutions affiliated with the technical education and vocational training authority had also joined hands with the teachers of general education institutions.
Later, the teachers took out the protest procession from the Civil Lines College and marched up to Kutchery Chowk. They also chanted slogans in favour of their demands. Activists of various student organizations, however, dominated the protest procession.
A heavy police contingent escorted the procession and no untoward incident occurred as the teachers dispersed peacefully.
SAHIWAL: Three students were arrested and 30 booked on various charges when they took out a procession to protest against privatization of educational institutions.
The rally had been led by students of the local government college.
The police arrested Hasan, Mohammad Faisal and Shahzad Mahmood, who had allegedly entered the local Government Comprehensive High School and ransacked the office of the principal.
The Farid Town police registered cases against 30 students, who had allegedly lifted five bicycles.
The police are conducting raids to make more arrests.
NAROWAL: Teachers boycotted classes in all schools and colleges of the district after 11am to protest against denationalization of educational institutions.
A meeting of the joint action committee of teachers association here decided to boycott classes after 11am on every Monday and Thursday till the acceptance of their demands.
The teachers condemned the ill-treatment being meted out to their leaders.
GUJRANWALA: The Anjuman Talaba Islam took out a protest rally against the denationalization of educational institutions and constitution of the board of governors.
They boycotted their classes and gathered at the Government Islamia College here on Thursday.
Carrying banners and placards, the protesters paraded on the College Road, Nomania Road, Gondlanwala Road, Overhead Bridge and Sialkot Road and shouted slogans against the denationalization of educational institutions.
They reached the District Courts and met district Nazim Fiaz Ahmad Chattha. They presented him a memorandum and demanded that the denationalization of educational institutions should be abolished.
ATI district Nazim Mehr Qaiser Shahzad, Naib Nazim Usman Khalid Hinjra, secretary-general Malik Mahmood Ahmad and press secretary Farooq announced that their protest strike would continue till the acceptance of their demands.
SARGODHA: Almost all educational institutions observed a token strike here on Thursday.
Joint Action Committee Chairman Dr Muhammad Ahmad Khan vowed to continue strike till the acceptance of their demands.
He refuted the Punjab Governor claim that no fee would be enhanced after the denationalization of the educational institutions. He cited the example of the Government College, Lahore, where the fee had been raised.
