HYDERABAD, Aug 19: The Hyderabad chapter of the Government Secondary Teachers Association (GSTA) has decided to file a writ petition in the Supreme Court against delay in teachers’ promotions, appointments on political grounds, non-payment of difference in salaries and appointment of junior and ex-cadre officers in the education department.
The GSTA’s general body meeting presided over by Zamir Khan took the decision on Saturday and observed that the teachers of Hyderabad district had been deprived of promotions for two years despite the fact that the posts had been lying vacant.
The meeting pointed out that even the junior teachers of new districts had become senior to the senior teachers of Hyderabad district on technical grounds. Similarly, they were also not being paid difference in their salaries for four years, the meeting said.
The meeting said that lists of people who would be appointed on political grounds had already been prepared and the newspapers were full of stories about a 50-50 quota.
The meeting said that the department was denying quota in jobs for the teachers’ children on the pretext of merit while at the same time it was trampling upon the principle of merit in making appointments on political grounds.
The meeting criticised the appointment of educational officers in Hyderabad in flagrant violation of merit and argued that first the officers belonged to ex-cadre and the second they were juniors. Besides, some officers with bad reputation had also been appointed in Hyderabad, added the meeting.
The meeting said that the association has sent letters to the concerned authorities from time to time to inform them of the problems but they had little effect. Under these circumstances, the meeting decided to file a writ petition in the Supreme Court by the end of current month to seek justice, the meeting said.
PROTEST: A large number of people staged a demonstration under the banner of Young Citizen Welfare Association outside the press club on Sunday in protest against delay in resumption of work on an under-construction building of a school in Lalu Lashari village in union council-16 of city taluka.
The leaders, Manthar Ali Jatoi, Ghulam Yaseen Jatoi, Abdus Sattar Bhatti and Mohammad Waris Mughal, said that the district government had started work on the school’s building but it had been in doldrums for months for no cogent reason. They had staged many demonstrations urging the authorities to resume work but their cries fell on deaf ears, they complained.
They argued that if the district could spend millions of rupees on a recreational park in Noorani Basti in the same union council, there was no reason why it could not construct the school in the village, which would serve a population of 40,000.
They termed it as discrimination against the villagers and appealed to the authorities to order resumption of work else they would move the Supreme Court to seek justice.
MURDERS: The Amir of the Hyderabad chapter of the Jamaat-i-Islami, Shaikh Shaukat Ali, on Sunday demanded that the authorities expose the hands behind the three gruesome murders, which took place in the City police station’s area within a space of two days.
In a statement, the JI leader said that the DIG and the DPO of Hyderabad had claimed to have controlled the law and order in the city but it appeared some black sheep were bent on sabotaging their efforts. The modus operandi adopted in the three murders had jolted the people and created among them a sense of insecurity, he added.
HCCI: The Hyderabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (HCCI) on Sunday expressed concern over harassment of passengers at Sohrab Goth, Karachi on the night of Aug 17.
In a statement, the chamber’s president, Yousuf Suleman urged the government to take effective measures to protect the life and property of people.
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