College teachers threaten to march on CM House for rights.

LARKANA -- The Sindh Professors and Lecturers Association (SPLA) has slammed the provincial government's 'dilly-dallying' on granting time scale and teaching allowance to college teachers and teaching staff and announced a march on Chief Minister House on Nov 6 to press for the demands.

Members of the association's coordination committee Prof Abdul Jabbar Junejo, Prof Manzoor Kalhoro, Prof Jam Jamali and others said at a press conference at the Larkana Press Club on Saturday that the march towards CM House would start from Karachi Press Club.

They said that a summery detailing their demands had been prepared and moved to CM House on Dec 22, 2010, where it had been gathering dust for the past eight years waiting only for the chief executive's approval to grant time scale and allowance to 8,000 college teachers.

The total seats of college teachers numbered 11,000 but presently 8,000 teachers were working in different institutions while 3,000 seats had been lying vacant for years, they said.

The summary was moved in the wake of successful talks between SPLA's representatives and the then chief secretary on Nov 11, 2010, wherein it was agreed that time scale and teaching allowances would be granted to college teachers on the pattern of Balochistan government's policy and decision, they said.

In 2010, they said, thousands of their colleagues in primary and secondary schools had been given their due right of time scale and teaching facilities, thereby permanently resolving the issue of their promotions and salaries.

They said that perhaps the college...