Teaching, non-teaching staff appointed in 2012 protest for salaries

Teachers and non-teaching staffers with their families held a protest demonstration on the first day of religious festival Eid-ul-Fitr over the non-payment of their salaries since their appointment in 2012

The demonstration was staged in front of Karachi Press Club on Saturday against the School Education Department, Sindh. The protesting employees chanted slogans against the officials of the education department.

They were holding placards and demanded that their salaries should be issued immediately. The demonstration was led by New Teachers Action Committee Chairman Abu Bakar Abro and Sindh Teachers Association Chairperson Zahair Ahmed Baloch.

On the occasion, NTAC Chairman Abu Bakar Abro maintained that the chief of justice of Pakistan during the last hearing held in the month of Ramazan at the Supreme Court of Pakistan, Karachi Registry, had issued orders to the officials of the education department to release the salaries of the unpaid teachers and non-teaching staffers.

Some of the bureaucrats of the education department, however, were creating hurdles in the release of salaries to the unpaid employees, and they were not taking the court’s verdict seriously, said the protesters.

He said that the officials of the provincial education department had been investigating their documentations, appointment process and legal status of their employment, but they could not find out a permanent solution to the dispute while those teachers who had been appointed through merit and were well qualified for employment were also suffering as a result.

He demanded the immediate release of the salaries to the unpaid staffers of the department. In the year 2012, these protesting teachers and non-teaching employees were appointed by then provincial education minister Pir Mazharul Haq. However, the National Accountability Bureau cleared Pir Mazhar-ul-Haq from the charges of having a hand in the fake appointments of teachers on August 17, 2017.