The employees also demanded ‘hiring facilities’ or payments against rented houses. PHOTO: FILE
Speaking at a press conference on Sunday, representatives of two employees’ associations of Islamabad model colleges said that they will completely boycott work unless their six-point demand including time-scale promotions, regularisation of daily wage employees, education allowance for the staff and the establishment of new model colleges was met.
They said that they were raising their protest with the Federal Directorate of Education and the Ministry of the Capital Administration and Development (CAD) to fulfill their demands.
“If our demands are not met by Monday evening, we will launch a street protest the next morning,” said Aftab Tariq, President of the Central Academic Staff Association of Islamabad Model Colleges while speaking at the press conference.
The foremost demand of the employees is the immediate implementation of the October 2010 directives by former Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, who had ordered to grant time-scale promotions to the teachers with relavent benefits and monetisation.
The employees also demanded ‘hiring facilities’ or payments against rented houses.
The Non-Teaching Welfare Association of the federal colleges in Islamabad also voiced its support to the protesting employees of the Islamabad model colleges.
Aftab Abbasi, President of the Islamabad Model Colleges and Schools Employees Welfare Association, said, “There will be a complete lockdown and school transport will remain off the roads today.”
The daily wage employees of the model colleges had been protesting for their regularisation since January. In the first phase, both permanent and daily wagers started a black armband protest on February 4 as part of a coordinated protest strategy.
Tariq said that the associations had sent their demands to Minister CAD Nazar Muhammad Gondal, Secretary CAD Riffat Shaheen Qazi and Director General FDE Shahnaz Anjum Riaz, but none of the officials contacted them.
“We do not want to abandon classrooms and the students suffer, but we demand the higher authorities to take immediate steps to resolve our genuine demands,” Tariq said.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 11th, 2013.
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