Educational institutions opened after dengue holidays
 

AS the educational institutions have opened after long summer vacation and `dengue holidays`, the public-sector college teachers have come out on roads and staged two protest demonstrations last week against the establishment of Boards of Governors in 26 public-sector colleges, which were granted autonomy to introduce four-year BS (Honours) programmes.
The teachers, under the banner of the Punjab Professors and Lecturers Association, are now protesting government`s latest move of disbursing salaries to the teachers through their respective colleges` BoGs. The teachers say they are Punjab government employees and they should be given salaries through the AG Office.
They said the new system would give arm-twisting powers to the BoGs and cause unrest among teachers. Similarly, they said, the BoGs would then push students against the wall by enhancing fees of their own free will in a move to generate resources for colleges as well as payment of salaries leading to privatisation of public-sector institutions.
The two protest demonstrations have so far been staged in front of Government MAO College and Government Islamia College for Women, Cooper Road.