LAHORE: The educators on Saturday ended their sit-in after reaching an agreement with the Punjab government.

Thousands of educators were holding a sit-in outside former prime minister Imran Khan’s Zaman Park house, demanding regularisation of their jobs.

Punjab Physical Education Teachers Association (PPETA), Punjab Teachers’ Union (PTU) and Punjab Government Schools Association of Computer Teachers (PGSACT) were leading the protest.

The protesters raised slogans, holding banners and placards inscribed with their demands of a service structure and regularisation of assistant education officers.

They regretted that jobs of total 14,000 teachers had not been regularised since 2014.

They said under the recruitment policy, these teachers appeared in the NTS and departmental interviews for regular recruitment but the government was again asking them to appear in another tests and appeared for interviews to get their jobs regularised, but to no avail.

Later, the media coordinator of the teachers announced ending the protest, saying the government had promised to regularise the jobs of teachers up to grade 16.

Published in Dawn, january 1st, 2023