Article (II) - Sindh Professors' & Lecturers' Association (SPLA)

1.NAME

Association shall be called the “SINDH PROFESSORS’ & LECTURERS’ ASSOCIATION”

2. HEADQUARTER

The permanent headquarter of the Association shall be located at Karachi. The president shall, however, be authorized to locate the working headquarter at any place that deems fit and proper.

3. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

To safeguard the rights and interests of its members both as a community and individual.

b. To preserve, promote, and maintain the integrity of the members and to strive for the enhancement of the status, scale, and grade commensurate with their role in society.

c. To organize educational/academic conferences, seminars & symposiums. Outstanding teachers will be awarded for their meritorious services.

d. To help its members who are involved in research assignments.

e. To revise and inculcate traditions, ideas, and values of religious education and culture in conformity with our national integration, objectives, and aspiration.

f. To strive for the welfare of the members.

g. To establish contacts with different bodies of the teachers and other professional bodies. Form alliances with them aiming at to improve the general conditions of the teaching community in particular and national welfare in general.

h. To frame proposals for the betterment of education and submit to authorities for implementation and help the masses to eradicate the illiteracy.

4. MEMBERSHIP

Membership of the Association shall be open to all principals, teachers, librarians, and DPEs of all cadres serving in the colleges run by the College Education Department, Government of Sindh and District Governments, and City District Government in the province of Sindh

5. ENROLMENT

Any person fulfilling the conditions for being eligible to be enrolled as a member of the Association shall be deemed to have agreed to abide by the rules and regulations of the association. An applicants shall fill in the membership form in duplicate and submit it together with his/her membership subscription to the Secretary of the Regional Association through the Secretary of the local association. The Secretary of the regional association shall retain one copy of his/her form and send the other to the secretary of SPLA.

6. SUBSCRIPTION

Every member shall be liable to pay his/her respective local Finance Secretary membership/subscription fee of PKR150 payable in advance in the month of September each year. The local Finance Secretary shall retain PKR30 with him for contigent expenses of the local Association and send PKR20 to the District Finance Secretary and PKR50 to the Regional Finance Secretary and PKR50 to the Finance Secretary Sindh Professors’ & Lecturers Association. PKR300 for new membership will directly be deposited with the Finance Secretary Sindh Professors & Lecturers’ Association. All the amount of the subscription so received shall be deposited in a scheduled Bank in the name of Local,District, Regional Association, Sindh Professors’ & Lecturers’ Association, as case may be.

a) The Regional Finance Secretary shall be also be authorized to collect PKR150 per member from units of their respective Regions and disperse it to the respective associations.