Karachi
December 31, 2020
Protesting teachers holding a symbolic hunger strike outside the Karachi Press Club have announced continuing their demonstration until Friday.
Addressing the participants on Monday, Government Secondary Teachers Association Sindh (GSTAS) Central President Maqsood Mehmood Mahesar said they were not against new recruitments. âBut the provincial government should make new recruitments permanently instead of on a contract basis.â
Demanding the release of unpaid salaries, he said the education department should pay the salaries to the teachers recruited nine years ago. âTheir salaries are even mentioned in the budget book.â
Mahesar said the scrutiny processes of âother cadre employees recruited in 2012â was unsatisfactory. âWe will not end the protest without getting the problems of the teachers resolved.â He said the Sindh government and its education department were spending public money âon self-improvement a
Karachi
December 15, 2020
Demanding the reopening of schools and release of salaries to the teachers recruited in 2012, the Government Secondary Teachers Association (GSTA) on Monday announced a symbolic hunger strike at the Karachi Press Club on December 30.
The association has also accused the provincial government of deliberately destroying the education system in the state-run schools in the name of the Covid-19 pandemic. âThe PPP government kept the children of Sindh away from schools under the pretext of Covid-19 to cover up its failure while holding political meetings itself,â GSTA Central President Maqsood Mehmood Mahesar said in the statement issued on Monday.
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