IN PROTEST: Teachers demanding regularisation continue protest for third day

Teachers threaten to go on a hunger strike

KARACHI: Teachers from across Sindh, demanding the issuance of notification for their regularisation, staged a demonstration outside the Karachi Press Club for the third consecutive day on Wednesday.

Shouting slogans, pressing for the approval of their demands, and holding a hunger strike, the protesters comprised teachers who had passed tests held by the University of Sindh, Iqra University and National Testing Service.

Protesters said that around 10,000 teachers have not been regularised. They lamented the education department's disregard for their demands, saying that some of them have been associated with the profession for several years. They said two days had passed since they began the demonstration but no one from the education department had contacted them.

The protesting teachers announced going on a hunger strike and said that they would only end the protest and the strike after they are assured by the government that their demands would be accepted and a notification for their regularisation was issued.

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"In case if anything happens to any one of us during the course of the hunger strike, only the Sindh government is to be held responsible," said one of the protesters.

They announced that they would march towards the Chief Minister House on December 19 if their demands are not met until then, adding that they would immediately disperse following the issuance of the notification for their regularisation. They said that a bill has also been passed for their regularisation.

Meanwhile, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf MPA Shahar Yar Khan Shar reached the site of the protest and assured the aggrieved teachers that he would raise the issue in the Sindh Assembly.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 12^th, 2019.