Daily Times

KARACHI: The Feeder Teachers’ Association has continued their sit-in for the 4th consecutive day in front of the Karachi Press Club to assert their demand for regularization of their jobs.

The National Commission for Human Development (NCHD) had appointed more than eight thousand workers, including feeder teachers and other staff in the 2004, under an educational development program dedicated for the development of education.

The teachers employed, said that NCHD had regularized only 2943 non teaching staff, but none of the teachers, whom they had promised to regularize. The association is still seeking for permanency in their jobs.

“In accordance to the 18th amendment, the teachers should be merged in the Sindh Government and to be regularized like other teachers,” protesters have demanded.

During the protest, teachers who had joined in from different parts of Sindh, told Daily Times that they were here to support the fellows demanding their right .

Earlier in 2013, the former Federal Minister, Syed Khursheed Shah had taken action and had constituted a sub-committee for resolving the issues related to NCHD teachers, including their regularization and the raise in their salaries from five to eight thousand, but no progress has been made in this regard, they added.

They have dedicated 12 years to serve the field of education, many of them have become old and ineligible for any government job, and hence they want their regularization in order to contribute more to the education sector.