APCA stages protest outside Punjab assembly

The clerks and teachers Wednesday staged protest over the increase in salary under the aegis of All Pakistan Clerks Association (APCA) outside the Punjab assembly here, Geo News reported. Punjab assembly opposition leader, Mahmood-ur-Rashid expressing his solidarity with the struggling clerks also joined in the APCA demonstration outside the Punjab assembly at Chairing Cross, where a large number of agitating clerks and teachers were voicing slogans against the paltry 10 percent raise in salaries. The clerks demanded from the government to fulfill its promise and allow increase in salaries in proportion to the inflation at least by 100 percent. Besides house rent and conveyance allowance also be raised and contract employees be made permanent, they demanded. Opposition leader Mahmood-ur-Rashid endorsing the demands of the clerks said that denial of an appropriate increase in government employees’ salaries was a tragedy.