Contractual IT teachers continue protest

The contractual IT teachers serving in the state-run educational institutions of AJK continued their protest on Wednesday and threatened to launch mass street agitation from December 20, if their demands were not met. The purpose of the protest was to press the AJK government for early acceptance of their long-standing demands including regularisation of their services and release of salaries blocked since the past six months.
A spokesperson of the IT Teachers Action Committee Mohsin Yousaf told newsmen that the future of at least 526 teachers working on contact basis in the public-sector schools was at stake. Mohsin said if the demands were not met by the dead line, December 19, the protesting teachers would boycott their duties and stage a sit-in at Shaheed Chowk, the next day at 10 a m.