HYDERABAD, Dec 4: The paramedical and doctor tutors of Benazir Bhutto Shaheed Youth Development Programme (BBSYDP) said that they would not come to work until they were paid their outstanding salaries of nine months.

The tutors were protesting on Tuesday under the aegis of Young Doctors and Tutors in front of the press club against not being regularised and not receiving their salaries since March. They were led by BBSYDP’s doctor tutor Sardar Ahmed and paramedical tutor Dost Mohammad.

The protesters said that they had stopped taking classes in Hyderabad and other parts of the province since Nov 26. They gave warning that classes would remain suspended in schools across Sindh, including Liaquat University Hospital Hyderabad, until the tutors were pai.

The protesters said that they had been working for more than four years yet still hadn’t been regularised. According to them, there were around 400 paramedical and doctors tutors and 450 students in Sindh.

The tutors were not being paid since March while the students hadn’t received their stipends since August, they said, adding that doctors tutors, paramedical tutors and trainees should be paid Rs30,000, Rs25,000 and Rs2,200 per month respectively.

According to them, around 1,000 students were getting training in Hyderabad while 5,000 trainees were being trained in the rest of Sindh.

The protesters said that around 10,000 students have received technical education in the past four years and have been appointed in government and private hospitals, and abroad and were making a decent living.

However, on the other hand the tutors were neither being regularised nor being paid on time.