The fate of 860 ad-hoc lecturers, kept on regularisation promise by the previous government, hangs in balance as they continue to wait for appropriate orders.
The leaders of the Ad-hoc Lecturers Action Committee of the Sindh Professors and Lecturers Association, Manzoor Kalhoro, Zulfikar Kolachi, Mohammed Chhuttal Bozdar, Ghulam Shabbir Channo, Fareed Abro, Khadim Dahairi and others told newsmen here on Monday that they had sent an e-mail to PPP Co-Chairman Asif Zardari with the request to regularise their jobs.
The PPP co-chairman in a communication had asked former senator Taj Haider to talk to education authorities and the Sindh Chief Minister for putting up the case of regularisation, they said. "We held meeting with Haider who contacted the Chief Minister and Education Minister of Sindh in the light of instructions from Asif Zardari and were promised early regularisation," they said.
Taj Haider in a letter to Sindh Education Minister conveyed him the advice and instructions of the PPP Co-chairperson and said that 860 ad-hoc lecturers were working in different colleges in Sindh for past several years.
The services of ad-hoc lecturers had been regularised in other provinces but former Sindh chief minister Dr Arbab Rahim delayed the case for they were appointed prior to his becoming the chief minister. The former leader of opposition had also moved a resolution in Sindh Assembly for their regularisation and the then Sindh education minister had promised on the floor of the house to confirm them. But they were not regularised despite commitment.
The aggrieved lecturers said tenure of their jobs was renewed after every six months through a Sindh Government notification, however, for the last five months their salaries had been stopped as no fresh notification was issued by the government.
They regretted that a summary for six-month extension notification was still lying with the Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah since two months for signature. The lecturers said the Punjab government on April 4, through a notification had regularised 446 ad-hoc lecturers.
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