Teachers union protests cumbersome additional duties.

LAHORE -- The Punjab Teachers Union (PTU) demands that the government should stop pressurising the teachers to perform extra duties like collection of B-forms for new enrollments and conducting Khushhali Survey.

PTU president Chaudhry Sarfraz and other members Syed Sajjad Akbar Kazmi, Rana Liaquat, Chaudhry Muhammad Ali, Malik Sajjad, Mustafa Sindhu, Rana Khalid, Mirza Tariq, Tahir Islam, Nazir Gujjar, Ghafar Awan and Rana Ilyas jointly addressed a press conference on Sunday.

They said the government had assigned 1,300 teachers of various schools to conduct the Khushhali Survey in Lahore. 'We have to go to every house to register the details of the family members including total members, residence status, rent or owner, monthly income and other things,' they said.

They said the government was forcing them to get additional duties and it had become a norm of the country that any government could assign any task to the teachers.

'If we refuse to do these additional duties, the department starts action under PEEDA Act,' they said.

They said they did not want any additional payment and the government should give employment to unemployed people to conduct surveys etc. They said that there were 550 schools in the city and the government could assign this survey duty to one or two teachers from each school so that the education of the students did not disturb.

They said the School Education Department (SED) was already assigning additional duties and forcing them to collect B-forms of the students...