HYDERABAD, June 28: Teachers of primary schools took out processions and held demonstrations in different parts of Sindh on Tuesday for acceptance of their demands. The Primary Teachers Association, Sindh, had given the call for the protest.

The teachers’ demands include regularization of services of teachers working on contract, restoration of job quota of children of teachers and award of MA increment.

In Hyderabad, a large number of teachers held a demonstration outside the press club.

Speaking on the occasion, association president Mohammad Rafiq Jarwar and Munir Ahmad Bhatti said injustices were being committed against primary teachers. They said authorities had compelled them to come out on the roads against non-acceptance of their demands.

They waned that if services of contract teachers were not regularized and teachers’ children employment quota was not restored, primary teachers of the province would hold a protest demonstration outside the Karachi Press Club on July 7 and besiege the Sindh secretariat.

Reports from Tando Mohammad Khan said primary and mosque school teachers and the Jamiatul Madraseen also held a demonstration outside the local press club.

Shafi Sathio and Abdul Razzaq Chandio spoke on the occasion.

NAWABSHAH: Hundreds of teachers took out a procession and held a demonstration opposite the press club here.

The procession started from the main Sindhi school and terminated at the press club after passing through the Hospital Road and the Kutchehry Road.

District PTA president Kamaluddin Channa, Mohammad Ashraf Brohi, Kashif Noorani and Mehboob Khokhar spoke on the occasion.

Later, the protesters went to the circuit house and met the adviser to the Sindh chief minister, Ghulam Rasool Unnar, who assured them that services of contract primary teachers would be regularized in four days.

NAUSHAHRO FEROZE: Primary teachers took out a procession from the main primary school to the Allahwala Chowk here.

District PTA president Munawar Ali Shah, taluka president Ayub Pathan and Yaqoob Panhwar led the procession.

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