GSTA protests for immediate payment of salaries
Karachi
May 20, 2021
The Government Secondary Teachers Association (GSTA) has demanded immediate payment of salaries to the teachers in Karachi and other districts of Sindh who have been deprived of their salaries for the past nine years.
The GSTA had said that if their demands were not fulfilled, the association would use all other options, including strike, according to the statement issued by the association. A protest was demonstrated at the Government Boys Secondary School, District West, and GSTA Central General Secretary Abdul Hafeez Mehr, senior leader Masood Al Hassan, GSTA Karachi Division President Anwar Din Memon, Karachi West President Allah Bachaio Lakho, General Secretary Nordin Mastoi, Manghopir Taluka President Shafi Muhammad Channa, General Secretary Abdul Jabbar Baloch participated in the protest.
Without light
March 13, 2021
Several cities of Sindh have been facing the problem of electricity loadshedding for years. Dadu is one of them. The rural areas of this district have to face prolonged periods of loadshedding. The Phakka village in Dadu has the population of ten thousand people. This village is facing the problem of frequent power breakdowns which lead to power outages. In summer, the supply of water is badly affected due to persistent loadshedding. The electricity shortfall has hit the record level.
The Sindh government must look into this issue and take proper steps to ensure that the area receives the uninterrupted supply of electricity.
No entry test
March 10, 2021
Sindh University conducts entry tests every year. But in the current year, it didn’t take the test due to the Covid-19 outbreak. It announced a new policy in which the criteria for the selection of students was as follows: a student should have got 60 percent marks in intermediate and 40 percent in matric. Students who had the highest marks were given admission in high-ranking departments. Unfortunately, this policy turned out to be unfair to those students who secured Grades C and D in matric and intermediate.
Previously, students who had Grades C and D managed to get admission in these departments on the basis of their good scores in the entry test. Also, the university reserved a large number of seats under the self-finance scheme. This policy favoured the rich who easily paid for the seat. The university should have conducted the entry test. Now, students who couldn’t get good grades cannot get admission in their desired departments.