TOBA TEK SINGH, Jan 11: Teachers will boycott classes from Jan 14 to 21 all over the district if the Education department fails to pay their four-month salaries.

This was stated by Punjab information technology and laboratory teachers union division president Abid Hussain Bhatti while talking to reporters at the Government Islamia Secondary School here on Friday.

He said the teachers would also set up a hunger strike camp on Jan 22 in the district press club.

Mr Bhatti said the Punjab government had launched the IT project with the cooperation of the IT Ministry and Pakistan Computer Bureau in all schools of the province.

He said 515 computer laboratories were also set up in these schools but employees were not paid salaries for the last four months.

When contacted, an education department spokesman said the government had not extended the contract employment of hundreds of employees as the project was to last till Dec 31, 2007.