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