Scores of teaching and non-teaching staff of Government Degree College Kahuta staged a protest demonstration on Wednesday outside the local press club to push the Punjab government for the release of financial grant for their salaries. The protesters said they were not paid salaries for the last four months due to the finical crunch, adding that in the last financial year, the provincial government reduced the college fund, which resulted in a crisis for the college. “The college has no fund to pay salaries.
For the last four months not a single employee was given salary and still there is no ray of hope,” said Prof Arif Javaid Khan. The Government Degree College Kahuta is an autonomous body, which is being run by a Board of Governors (BoG), headed by the Khan Research Laboratory chairman. Prof Arif Javaid said the BoG chairman personally raised the issue with the Punjab government but the Education Ministry showed indifference to the just demand. The teachers said more than one thousand poor students were enrolled in the college.
They demanded the Punjab chief minister to order releasing the financial grant for the college and to take over the control of the institution in the greater interest of poor students and staffers.