More than 1,000 teachers, including part-time teachers, teacher-aspirants and serving teachers who were protesting on the Directorate of Public Instructions (DPI) campus, were arrested in the early hours of Thursday.
Part-time teachers had been observing a fast since September 25, demanding that they be made permanent employees of the government.
On the same campus, teachers who are also members of the Secondary Grade Seniority Teachers’ Association were protesting over “equal pay for equal work” and teachers who cleared Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) were demanding that they be recruited as teachers.
