Govt, protesting teachers reach deal

Contractual educators to be regularised

KARACHI:

Sindh government has reached an agreement with the protesting teachers, according to which teachers working on contract from 2018 will be regularised in one month.

After the agreement, the teachers have announced to end their protest.

More than 3,000 educators were recruited on contract in 2018, which included early childhood teachers and junior elementary school teachers.

These teachers were hired on contract for three years and their salaries were not increased nor were they made permanent. In this regard, contract early childhood teachers and junior elementary school teachers from all over Sindh were protesting for days to make their jobs permanent.

In this regard, Sindh Education Minister Sardar Ali Shah said that "we had forwarded the summary one month ago, which will be approved within one month".

He said that, in one month, the process of regularization of teachers will be completed and the notification will be issued. The education minister assured to approve the demands of the teachers after which the teachers suspended their protest.

Rouge cop suspended

A policewoman was suspended for torturing and humiliating a female teacher during the protest near CM House on Monday.

Karachi police South zone DIG Sharjeel Kharal had sought a report from the South zone SSP over the incident of a policewoman deployed as constable in the anti-riot force dragging a female teacher by hair, slapping her and brutally throwing her in police mobile.

Subsequently, on the SSP's report the top cop of the South district admonished constable ordered that she should be suspended from her duty.

During the protest of contract teachers from all over Sindh outside the Karachi Press Club, the female teachers were brutally tortured by the lady police officers while entering the red zone and in this regard, a video also went viral on social media, in which a lady constable is seen holding a female teacher by her hair and slapping her and she takes her near the mobile and slaps her more.

Meanwhile, other lady police constables have been seen picking up the female teacher and throwing her in the police mobile as if she had committed some serious crime whereas she was only protesting in favor of her demands.

Police spokesperson said that South Zone Police condemned the incident and initiated disciplinary action against constable for her excesses.

The spokesperson said that the entire unit or institution cannot be held responsible for the bad actions of an individual. The process of accountability within the police is always ongoing.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 20^th, 2022.