Sindh Professors and Lecturers Association rejects education emergency. PHOTO: EXPRESS
HYDERABAD: The Sindh Professors and Lecturers Association (SPLA) rejected the provincial education secretary's proposal of imposing an education emergency.
In a statement issued after a meeting of the SPLA's office-bearers on Friday, the association said that the purpose of the emergency is to only crush the teachers' associations, which are struggling for the rights of the teachers and improvement of the education system.
The SPLA claimed that around 3,000 posts of BPS-17 lecturers are lying vacant in the government colleges of Sindh. The shortage is particularly harming college education in rural parts of Sindh.
It further claimed that the lecturers appointed on BPS-17 posts in the year 2000 are still awaiting their promotions while their counterparts in Punjab and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa have been promoted to BPS-19 posts.
"There is shortage of furniture in classrooms, books in libraries, equipment and computers in laboratories, clean drinking water and playgrounds besides other facilities," said the statement, pointing out that despite such a situation, a sizable amount in the provincial government's education budget 2015-16 remained unutilised.
The SPLA warned of challenging the emergency decision in the court. The association's office bearers, Prof Syed Ali Murtaza, Prof Noor Ahmed Jahnji, Prof Sher Khan Selro, Prof Ferozuddin Siddiqi, Prof Shahjahan Panhwar and Prof Anwar Saagar attended the meeting.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 10th, 2016.
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