L OWER DIR: Teachers of public sector universities working on basic pay scales (BPS) have announced to launch a protest against the Higher Education Commission from June 15 for its f ailure to resolve their issues, mainly approval of promotion policy for them.

The announcement was made during a meeting of the core committee of All Pakistan Universities Basic Pay Scale Teachers Association (APUBTA) held at the University of Malakand with its chairman Dr Samiur Rahman in the chair, according to a press release issued here on Friday.

The meeting was called after the HEC`s failure to fulfil its commitment of resolving by mid of May the issues related to the career of thousands of BPS faculty members in the country.

The committee claimed that fundamental rights of promotion of in-service senior teachers were being violated. It announced that the BPS faculty was ready for protest to demand implementation of the HEC ordinance and abolition of what it called its discriminatory policies.

`The committee announced to start a protest from June 15 till approval of promotion policy as granted in the ordinance,` the release said, adding their strike would include a sit-in in Islamabad, boycott of classes and exams and countrywide rallies.

CDLD EMPLOYEES:The ad hoc employees of the Community Driven Local Development (CDLD), a policy of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government for participatory development, on Friday thanked Chief Minister Mehmood Khan for regularising their services.

Talking to mediapersons, CDLD district programme officer Asad Khan said the CM directed the secretary local government to move a summary for regularising the services of CDLD ad hoc employees on the occasion of his visit to Lower Dir.

They said that a total of 270 CDLD employees in Lower Dir, Buner, Swabi, Battagram, Swat, Shangla, Nowshera, Haripur and Lower Chitral were working on contract for several year s.