SUKKUR, March 31 Scores of primary school teachers on the call of the Primary Teachers Association (PTA) took out a procession in Mirpur Mathelo on Wednesday, demanding raise in their salary and allowances.

The teachers, carrying placards and banners and shouting slogans took to the streets from Main Primary School and, after marching on main roads of the town, reached Bhitai Chowk where they held a demonstration.

Talking to journalists, PTA president Mohammad Rafiq Jarwar said that the Sindh government was not ready to revise the salary of primary teachers who were getting higher salary and allowances in other provinces.

He said that job quota for the children of retired and deceased school teachers had been cancelled and demanded its restoration.