ISLAMABAD, Dec 20: Teachers of the Islamabad Model College for Boys (IMCB) F-7/3 and F-8/4 have also joined the protest campaign launched by the teachers of Islamabad College for Boys, G-6/3, over the issue of remuneration rates.

Teachers of these colleges are demanding of the Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) to increase the remuneration of the evening shift, as over a period of time, a significant increase had been made in the fee structure for the evening classes.

Similarly, the teaching staff of Islamabad College for Boys, (ICB), G-6/3, who stopped taking the evening classes from December 16 after the Federal Directorate of Education failed to review their remuneration rates, have reiterated to continue their protest until their demands were met.

In a statement, the teachers said, despite repeated requests by the teaching staff since 1992 to increase their pay for the evening shift, both the FDE and the federal education ministry have remained unmoved. Therefore, having no other options left, the teachers have decided to go for the last resort, it said.

It said the income made through the evening shifts had largely been at the disposal of the college administration which in turn was misusing the money.

Teachers of the ICB were of the view that the college administration had been getting hefty salaries, whereas the teachers who had been instrumental in making the evening shift a success story were not being given their share of the income.

They added that the FDE wanted to hire young people by paying them less then the senior teachers of the said colleges.

They said the children would suffer and the protest would also adversely affect the education standards at the FDE educational institutions.

They also lambasted the FDE administration for its indifferent attitude towards the on-going strike.