HYDERABAD, June 7: The Government Secondary Teachers Association, Hyderabad district, has urged the government to meet the long-standing demands of the secondary teachers including female teachers relating to selection grade.

A meeting of the association was held here on Friday which was presided over by Jan Mohammed Parhiar.

It expressed satisfaction over the release of teachers’ salaries.

The meeting, however, noted with concern that no action was being taken to solve the long-standing problems including science teaching allowance, GP fund advance and promotion to teachers who had obtained M. Ed degree from the Allama Iqbal Open University.

It demanded that the selection grade to HST and equivalent grade, which had fallen due in July, should be given as had been done in all the remaining districts of Sindh.

The meeting regretted that since 1982, no JST and equivalent grade female teacher had been given selection grade although GSTA had worked day and night in preparing seniority list and collecting all the relevant information.

It pointed out that promotion to M.Ed degree holders from the AIOU had been withheld for the last one year although the federal government was spending tens of millions of rupees on this university programme.