PPLA protest enters second phase; boycott of classes all over the Punjab

      Prof Waqar Hussain   

 

            PPLA Punjab Professor and lecturer Association has been holding sit-in in front of the Punjab Assembly at the Charring Cross Lahore since 26 March ; Thousands of professors from all over the Punjab gathered there to protest for their trio-demand in peaceful manner.

      Professors are demanding troika demands; their  first demand is pay protection of contract professors batches of 2000, 2005, 2009, and 2012 . They are demanding that their salary count should start from the day, they joined higher education department.

     Second demand is that their promotion had been stopped with a condition of “pre promotion training” for the last 3 years. Government is neither conducting training nor promoting them. As a result, thousands of matured promotion cases are laying pending. They are asking for moving of promotion of process. They are ready to undergo training but govt lack necessary facilities for training. They demands if conduction of training is not possible at the moment, deserved professor should be given promotion as it was done on earlier times.

Third demand , Professors want implementation of KPK 5-tier formula i.e. 0.6% for grade 21; 22% for grade 19; 35% for grade 18; and 36% for grade 17.

     After 7 days of peaceful sit-in, government has turned a deaf ears to their demand so they entered into 2nd phase of their protest by announcing boycott of classes after 10 am onward on daily basis.

   In line with PPLA central executive decision; professors of TI college Chenab Nagar boycotted the classes after 10 am and had a walk inside and outside college. And raised slogans high to be heard in the higher echelon of power and get rectified. People of the area showed great concern of the prevailing scenario when they saw“ builders of nation” begging for their own“build up” of service structure and demanded that mentors of nation should be given high stature both in economic and social domain.

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