Sacked teachers want jobs back

Published November 20, 2008

MIRPURKHAS, Nov 19: A large number of protesters who had been sacked as primary teachers by the district government observed a token hunger strike outside the press club on Wednesday in protest against removal from job.

The protesters led by coordinator of the protesters’ action committee Yousuf Rind demanded that the district government reinstate them. They also staged a sit-in at the main gate of district nazim’s office.

They said that they were contracted for two years by the district government for opening closed schools. They had completed the tenure of contract but the government had not yet regularised them, they said.

MINISTER: Sindh Minister for Population Welfare Jam Mehtab Khan Dahar said on Wednesday that the government had inherited host of problems from the successive governments and appealed to people to help resolve them.