PESHAWAR - The teaching community of Islamia Collegiate School on Monday expressed concern over the prolonged delay in the issuance of promotion orders of school staffers and threatened to launch a protest derive and boycott classes, if their demands were not met within five days.
Talking to media persons here, Islamia Collegiate School Teaching Staff Association President Shaukat Ali said that they would go on complete strike if the Islamia College University administration failed to issue orders of the teachers’ promotion.  Some 31 positions in different scales including one in BS-20, five in BS-19, 18 in BS-18 and seven in other grades had been advertised on May 14, 2010. Proper selection board for appointment against these positions was held and the syndicate had approved the appointments in its meeting held on May 23, 2012, two years after the advertisement, he informed.
However, despite lapse of over nine months after the syndicate meeting, orders of the teachers’ promotion could not be issued, he added. The same meeting also increased the per class charges of the university teachers to Rs 600, Rs 700 and Rs 800 for lecturers, assistant professors and professors respectively, which the collegiate school teachers were completely ignored, who are still taking classes in the evening shift for Rs 350.
The incumbent acting vice-chancellor of the university, he alleged was creating hurdles in promotion of the schoolteachers and giving them their genuine rights.  He said that the acting vice-chancellor was influential enough to maintain her office as acting vice-chancellor of the ICU despite her appointment as full-time vice-chancellor at the Swabi University. He called for an impartial and competent professor should be made acting vice-chancellor of the university.
Meanwhile, despite the heavy rain, Provincial Adhoc Lecturers’ Association continued its protest on Monday here outside the Peshawar Press Club.
The teaching community has set up the protest camp against the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government against the non-regularization of their services despite the repeated assurance of the government representatives and officials concerned. They were of the view that the provincial government had appointed them in the government-run colleges on contract basis in 2010, and later on assured to regularize their services. “The ANP’s slain senior minister Bashir Bilour had assured to bring a bill in the provincial assembly to regularize the services of all the adhoc lecturers teaching at different government run colleges across the province, but after his assassination the mater was put in the ‘cold storage,” they lamented.
They demanded of Chief Minister Ameer Haider Hoti and concerned provincial minister to also regularize their services like the employees were in other public sector departments, and save the future of scores of teachers.