LAHORE, Dec 7: The Joint Action Committee of the Punjab Teachers has decided to give a call for educational boycott in the city district in case the orders nominating the union council Nazims as the chairmen of the school councils in their jurisdiction was not withdrawn by Tuesday (tomorrow).

This was stated by JAC secretary-general and Punjab Teachers Union president Jan Alam Khan and leaders Rana Muhammad Arshad, Rana Liaquat Ali, Malik Ehsan and Rana Ata said in a statement on Sunday.

They said that District Nazim Mian Amer Mahmood had issued the directive in respect of nomination of UC Nazims as the school council chairmen was tantamount to contempt of court as the government had last a similar case in the high court in the past and its appeal had been rejected by the Supreme Court.

They said that the committee had convened a meeting of the teachers on Tuesday to announce an educational boycott in case the unlawful orders were not withdrawn.

They said that the District Nazim was behaving like an agent of the NGOs by handing over the control of the government schools to them to help the operators solicit foreign grants on the basis of government schools.

They said that the government should protect the education system from political interference by district governments as it would have the worst imaginable effects on the quality of education.