HYDERABAD, Nov 16: The newly-elected provincial administrative council of the Sindh Professors and Lecturers Association (SPLA), at a meeting held at the Government Sachal Sarmast Arts and Commerce College on Friday, termed the Sindh Government’s educational policies anti-education, anti-people, anti-teachers, and anti-students and demanded of the Sindh governor to immediately remove the minister and secretary education.

It warned that in case the educational atmosphere in the educational institutions was jeopardized the teachers would not be held responsible.

It supported the struggle of the employees of Sindh in furtherance of their demands and resolved to appoint action committees at the district and taluka levels.

It resolved to stage a sit-in outside the Sindh governor house after Eid.

The SPLA condemned the robberies at the homes of Prof Saeeda Bashir and Prof Haseena Sand and demanded that the SHOs of Bhitai Nagar and Qasimabad police stations be suspended. It also condemned the victimization of the former principal Government Girls College Moro, Miss Suraiya Solangi, allegedly on the instance of a retired army officer.

It regretted that Miss Solangi had not been given any posting since the last three months.

It demanded that the female lecturers of Hyderabad and Mirpurkhas should not be transferred outside the cities, and the valuables stolen from the houses of Prof Saeeda Bashir and Ms Haseena Sand be recovered, and Miss Suraiya Solangi be posted in Dadu District.

It nominated 12 college teachers on the provincial administrative council from Karachi, Hyderabad, and Sukkur regions.

It adopted several other resolutions demanding the withdrawal of the decision to privatize educational institutions, restoration of move over, selection grade, and advance increment in the new pay scale, issuance of a covering notification in respect of the promotions and moveover cases of the remaining college teachers in grade 18, 19 and 20, abolition of self-finance scheme, grant of promotions to librarians and director physical education, and removal of the EDOs of Karachi, Hyderabad, Sukkur and Dadu.

The SPLA demanded that colleges should be provided teachers, books, furniture, scientific equipments, and computers. It also demanded that a separate board of intermediate and secondary education be set up at Mirpurkhas, and the Hyderabad Board be bifurcated into intermediate and secondary boards on the pattern of Karachi.

Those who addressed the meeting included Prof Liaquat Aziz, Aziz Ujjan, Khadim Hussain Khoso, Athar Hussain Mirza, and Syed Ali Akbar Shah.