MULTAN, April 18: The government should reinstate 800 ad hoc lecturers who were sacked despite excellent performance.
This was demanded by local Ad hoc Lecturers Association president Rana Muhammad Javaid while talking to newsmen.
He said lecturers were appointed in 1996 for six months, but their tenure had been extended time and again owing to their good performance. For some unknown reasons, they were terminated after five years which could be termed a violation of human rights, he said.
The government, he said, could easily reinstate them as 2,000 posts of lecturers were still lying vacant at different colleges in the Punjab.
The Punjab governor should help resolve the issue on priority basis otherwise this would cause disappointment among the educated youth, he added.
HUNGER STRIKE: Representatives of Muttahida Mahaz Isatiza have observed a hunger strike outside the district education office against the government for not meeting their demands.
They demanded that the government should immediately give time scale to teachers, do away with the contract system and increase their residential allowance.
The teachers threatened to continue strike till the acceptance of their demands.
RESULTS: The Education Department has declared the 8th class results.
Of the 9,041 students, 7,272 have been declared as successful showing a pass percentage of 80.43.
Aqib Rehman, Natiq Jahangir and Muhammad Ishaq of the Fort Cadet High School, Basti Malook, clinched first, second and third positions by securing 740, 730 and 727 marks, respectively.
STRIKE: Employees of the local Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) continued their strike on Wednesday for not giving salaries in accordance with new pay scales.
Talking to newsmen, BISE Employees Welfare Association president Sajjad Baloch pledged that employees would continue strike until their demands met.
He said they were not protesting against the government but against the Punjab Boards Committee of Chairman (PBCC) and the Education secretary. Despite knowing the financial problems faced by BISE employees, they were not ready to pay salaries with new pay scales, he said.
All BISEs chairmen were themselves getting salaries according to new pay scales, but they were reluctant to provide this facility to employees, he said.
He demanded that president Pervez Musharraf during his visit to Multan on Friday (today) should take note of the indifferent attitude of the PBCC.—Nouman