QUETTA:Government Teachers Association (Aaeni), district Quetta has demanded of the authorities to address the issue of upgrading teachers’ posts or else strong future course of action would be devised.

This demand was made in the protest demonstration held under the aegis of Government Teachers Association (Aaeni), district Quetta outside Quetta Press Club here on Saturday.

Addressing the protest demonstration, speakers said that upgrading the post of grade-9 teacher to grade-14 and grade-14 teacher to grade-16 was genuine and legitimate demand of Government Teachers Association (Aaeni), district Quetta, adding that provincial cabinet had already approved upgradation of grade-9 and grade-14 posts of Secondary Education Department, but Chief Secretary Balochistan was creating hurdles to mature the upgradation case of teachers. They demanded of the authorities to address the issue of upgrading teachers’ posts or else strong future course of action would be devised. Protest demonstration was addressed by Syed Aziz Agha, president, Government Teachers Association (Aaeni), district Quetta, Khan Zaman, President, Balochistan Labour Federation, Manzoor Rahi and others.

Earlier, a protest rally under the aegis of Government Teachers Association (Aaeni), district Quetta was taken out from the lawn of Quetta Metropolitan Corporation. Chanting slogans in support of their demands, participants of rally marched through Anscomb Road, Circular Road, Jinnah Road, Manan Chowk and Adalat Road where protesters assembled to hold protest demonstration outside Quetta Press Club.

Talking to PPI on condition of a anonymity, one officer of School Education Department, Balochistan said that owing to financial implications, upgradation case of junior teachers could not be notified. He said that 70000 teachers were serving in the province, but majority of them were not satisfactorily performing their duties. He added that a committee had been constituted to expose ghost schools.