LAHORE: Thousands of educators on Wednesday protested outside former prime minister Imran Khan`s house in Zaman Park to demand regularisation of their jobs.

Punjab Physical Education Teachers Association (PPETA), Punjab Teachers` Union (PTU) and Punjab Government Schools Association of Computer Teachers (PGSACT) held the protest outside Chief Minister`s House, and later moved towards Imran Khan`s residence in Zaman Park.

The protesters blocked the road outside Imran Khan`s residence, causing long queues of traffic onCanal Road.

They raised slogans, holding banners and placards inscribed with their demands of service structure and regularisation of assistant education officers.

The city government and police officials held negotiations with the protesters in the evening and later they changed the place of their sit-in and reached outside 8-Club Road where they held a sit-in outside the CM house but no one from the government approached them to address their grievances.

They said 14,000 teachers including SSEs, SESEs, and ESEs/ AEOs had not been regularised since 2014. They said that they would notend their protest till the acceptance of their demands .

They said under the recruitment policy, they appeared in the NTS test and departmental interviews for regular recruitment but the government was again asking them to appear in another test and interview to get themselves regularised.

Meanwhile, hundreds of vehicles got stuck in traffic on The Mall, Jail Road, Canal Road and other adjoining arteries due to a protest lodged by the government teachers outside the Zaman Park residence of Imran Khan.

They blocked the main Canal Road by staging a sit-in which led to a worst traffic blockade onthe roads.

Witnesses said several families also got trapped in long queues of the vehicles and they were forced to use the narrow streets to reach their destinations.

Reports suggested that the teachers who were demanding [pay] incentives first staged a sit-in at the Davies Chowk, creating traffic mess on The Mall and other arteries. As they found out that the authorities concerned were still unmoved to their protest and demands, many of them reached the Canal Road and blocked traffic there.

The blockade of two major roads led to a traffic mess in major parts of the city, causing a great deal of inconvenience to commuters.