GUJRANWALA, Dec 20: Government schoolteachers on Wednesday launched their hunger strike to protest against the government for not paying them the teaching allowance despite the promise made by the prime minister.
Speaking at the hunger strike camp outside the Government Iqbal High School, Muttahida Mahaz Asataza district chairman Qazi Asmatullah and other leaders criticized the education policy of the government.
They further alleged that the monitoring and contract system introduced by the government was causing a great harm to the cause of education.
The protesting teachers demanded that the education policy should be formulated with the consultation of educationists and senior teachers while educationists be appointed on all administrative posts on merit.
The hunger strike continued for five hours while union leaders announced that their protest would continue on Thursday (today) as well.
MIANWALI: Teachers of the secondary and elementary schools staged a four-hour token hunger strike at the Jehaz Chowk outside the courts.
Teachers in groups, carrying banners and placards, reached the Jehaz Chowk where leaders of teachers’ associations and unions made some fiery speeches.
Speakers demanded that the teachers should be given allowances while the practice of contract system and appointment of army subedars in girls’ schools under the pretext of monitoring and checking be also dispensed with.
Those who addressed were School Education Services (SES) Association president Rafiullah Khan, Punjab Teachers Association president Ghulam Mustafa, Anjuman Asatza Pakistan president Syed Naseer Shah, Tanzeem Asatza Pakistan president Asmatullah Rokhri, Arabic Teachers Association president Fida Rasool Shah Haideri, English Teachers Association president Hameedullah Khan, Educators president Aslam Khan and others.
OKARA: Dozens of schoolteachers staged a four-hour long sit in in front of Okara Press Club to press for the acceptance of their demands.
Speaking on the occasion, leaders of teachers said that the federal government had started giving allowance to their teachers but the Punjab government had still deprived its teachers of it.
TOBA TEK SINGH: Schoolteachers established a protest camp outside the Government Model High School on Jhang Road for the failure of the government to accept their demands.
A teachers association spokesman said that their protest would continue on Thursday (today).