ISLAMABAD: The teachers of the Basic education Community school have launched a protest against the incumbent government for not raising their salaries.
The teachers who are protesting told the MM news that Prime Minister Imran Khan promised to grant the basic teachers a permanent job at the permanent after entering power.
The ban on the Bachelor of Basic Education Community School should be lifted and made permanent, the teachers demanded.
The female teachers told that they were being paid a salary of only Rs 8,000 against the labor laws, which were not being granted on monthly basis, but now the management has stopped paying that also that has affected their financial stability.
Remembering the promise made by the prime minister, teachers said that they would continue to sit until their demand does not get fulfilled.
Since 1995, more than 7 million students in 137 districts across the country have been stopped receiving salaries from teachers for education.
About 70 percent of the 11908 teachers are female teachers who are educating the masses in remote parts of the country while labor law says the minimum wage is 20,000.
It may be recalled that before the theft of the suspended officers and employees of Sindh Building Control Authority reached the peak, 28 suspected accused of corruption surrounded the ADG along with other staff.
Following the Supreme Court of Pakistan’s order to remove corrupt officials, the Sindh government’s Housing and Town Department suspended 28 officers in March for corruption charges.
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