LAHORE, Jan 20: A large number of schoolteachers under the banner of the Punjab Teachers Union, Lahore district, on Tuesday staged a protest demonstration outside the press club for the acceptance of their ‘genuine’ demands.

The protesters, led by Lahore PTU President Rasheed Ahmad Bhatti, were carrying banners and placards and chanted slogans for a solution to their financial problems. They demanded that teachers’ salaries be increased at the earliest.

Speaking to the participants, PTU leaders Rasheed Bhatti, Taj Haider, Allah Bakhsh Qaiser, Munir Sindhu and others demanded that teachers be given time-scale promotions, teaching allowance, primary schoolteacher a salary equal to one-tola gold; headmasters, subject specialists and contract educators be regularized; doing away with difference in urban and rural allowances.

They also demanded the government restore teachers’ son quota in educational institutions and recruitments.—Staff Reporter