Islamabad, Feeling humiliated and betrayed after the eleventh hour postponement of ‘Salaam Teachers Day’, teachers of the Federal Government Colleges have threaten to close down the academic institutions if their demands are not met within ten days as promised by the Federal Ministry of Education.

In a meeting of Federal Government Teachers Association of Pakistan (FGTAP) held here on Thursday, the teachers severely criticized the government for betraying teachers and not fulfilling their promises regarding the announcement of special package for the federal government teachers on that particular day.

“Special package for the teachers’ longstanding demand of up-gradation was likely to be announced on that particular day but these entire announcements proved to be nothing but an eye wash,” said FGTAP President Azhar Mahmood Awan.

According to the package, teachers from Islamabad Colleges for Boys and Girls, Islamabad Model Colleges for Boys and Girls and Federal Government Schools and Colleges were to be up-graded under the time scale promotion formula (TSPF).

The FGTAP president said that teachers were already going through a tough time due to the recent cut in house rent and now they are not given the up-gradation in their scales for which they were very hopeful. “There are dozens of teachers who are working for more than two decades in the same scale but nobody has ever bothered to listen to their problems and also to solve them,” he said.

Akbar Jan on the occasion said that whenever there is some campaign like election campaign or polio campaign, teachers are forced to take part in it but when there is some time to acknowledge them, everybody seems to forget their contributions. “We are the only one who serves ourselves in different national causes besides imparting knowledge to the future of country but we are also the one whose demands are seldom met,” she said.

She further said if the government was not having funds for the payment of increased salaries to the teachers right now then it should at least announce it at the moment and implement it from July 2011. “Ministry of Education Secretary Mohammad Athar Tahir has asked us to wait for ten days and if our demands are not met within ten days then we would not remain silent as we did in the past,” she said.

FGTAP Vice President Salma Hassan said that every society respects their teachers but we were humiliated instead. “The organizers of Salaam Pakistan have made several excuses for the postponement of the event. Sometimes they said prime minister was not available and sometimes they said minister was not available. But the actual reason was that they don’t want to raise the status of the teachers,” she added.

Mirza Abdul Rashid on the occasion said that this time they would not remain silent at any cost and would fight until their demands are met. “Those sitting in power corridors should not take us lightly and should listen to our demands. We will also knock every possible door for our rights,” he said.

Naeem Khalid said that those who are enjoying the highest ranks are given all the incentives irrespective of the economic condition of the country but whenever it comes to teachers, the government makes different excuses. On the occasion teachers also held a protest demonstration against the cut in house rent and demanded of the government to release the amount for the house rent as soon as possible besides addressing to their other demands.

Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) Director General (DG) Shaheen Khan on the occasion appeared quite nervous. She also fumed at teachers when they announced to close down the academic institutions if their demands are not met. “Such decisions should not be taken at once. We are trying to facilitate teachers in every possible way and hopeful that the demands of teachers would soon be met,” she said.

 

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