LAHORE: The Punjab Professors and Lecturers Association (PPLA) on Tuesday staged a sit-in outside the Punjab Assembly against the government for not fulfilling its promise to fulfill their demands.

PPLA office-barriers vowed to continue the protest till the acceptance of their demands.

They said they had been protesting from last two years but no one was listening to fulfill their demands.

PPLA President Abdul Khalig said they demanded pay protection and service regularisation of regular/contract lectures of badges 2002, 2005, 2009 and 2012 besides improvement in service promotion structure (a five-tier promotion as announced in KP), and de-linking teachers` promotion to higher grades until the HED allocated reasonable financial resources for their training.

He said until the proper infrastructure was not developed as per the 2010 Promotion Policy, the HED could not hold regular promotions.

He said such policies deprived 200 college teachers of their promotion and they retired without being promoted to next grades in 2018. They demanded amendments to the Promotion Policy of 2010.

Mr Khalig said they were not boycotting the classes and did not want to disturb the education of the students but if the government would not listen to them, they would not only boycott classes but would also did not give duty in upcoming F.A and FSc examination in April and later BA and BSc examinations in May.

He said the Superior Court had issued orders of regularisation and pay protection of regular/contract lecturers but the HED was not implementing court orders.

He said no one from the government had come to talk to them to address their grievances and they would not end without implementation of their demands. Staff Reporter