The protesters were baton charged by the police when they tried to force into the university by pushing the closed university gate. PHOTO: FILE
GUJRAT:
Several students who had joined their teachers in a protest were injured on Friday after the police attacked them with batons.
They were taken to the district headquarters hospital, from where some of them were discharged a few hours later.
Ad-hoc lecturers at the Government Fawara Chowk Girls College and contractual teachers at the University of Gujrat were holding a demonstration to protest against non-payment of their salaries and delay in regularisation of their salaries.
The protesters shouted slogans against the government for not paying them for the last four months. Contractual teachers also demanded that they be regularised.
They said their boycott of classes would continue till they were paid.
The protesters blocked the road at the Fawara Chowk with a human chain and refused to let university buses through.
Later students from University of Gujrat’s affiliate colleges also joined them.
The protesters were baton charged by the police when they tried to force into the university by pushing the closed university gate.
The commotion continued for over four hours and ended when the university and college administrations invited the protesting teachers to talks for settlement.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 30th, 2013.
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