QUETTA: The Balochis­tan Professors and Lectu­rers Association (BPLA) has called upon the government to pay extra salary to those lecturers who were appointed to the boys’ colleges but are performing duties at the girls’ colleges.

According to BPLA president Prof Saeed Mandokhel, the association has been struggling for the constitutional rights of teachers in Balochistan for several years.

He said many lecturers and professors of boys’ colleges were taking extra classes at the girls’ colleges for many years but the government was still paying them only Rs7,500 per month.

He claimed that the lecturers and professors were earning less than “monthly wages of a labourer”.

“The provincial government allocates Rs8m monthly for this purpose — but this time it was distributed among teachers who don’t even go to classes,” he said, adding that the teachers who actually went to the class were denied of what was rightfully theirs.

Prof Mandokhel said that they had brought the issue to the notice of the director and secretary of colleges, but “unfortunately they have not taken any steps in this regard.

Instead they have made illegal and illogical placements at girls’ colleges. We condemn that”.

He said that there were nearly 300 posts vacant at colleges for women in the province which had not been filled so far.

He demanded that these vacant posts be filled immediately on merit.

Published in Dawn, March 7th, 2017