LAHORE: The Higher Education Department (HED) on Saturday changed the schedule of transfer and posting of teachers in public sector colleges of the province. According to the new schedule, applications for transfer will be received till Sept 22 (today) and a list of the eligible candidates would be posted on the website on Sept 23 (tomorrow). The department would address the complaints on transfer and posting from Sept 24 to 26 and final orders of the transfer and posting would be issued on 27th. The teachers would join their new posting from Sept 28 to 30. Around 10,000 college teachers of different cadres have applied for the transfer and posting. Earlier, the college teachers from across Punjab on Monday held a protest on The Mall, Lahore, and blocked it for five hours, demanding seat ‘adjustments and upgrade’ of 450 of their colleagues of the badge of 2012 recently promoted from BPS-17 to 18. Hundreds of male and female college teachers gathered and staged a sit-in in front of the HED secretary’s office at Anarkali as well. The province-wide protest call was given by the Punjab Professors and Lecturers Association (PPLA). As a result of the protest, a six-member committee was formed representing three members each from the Higher Education Department (HED) and the PPLA to resolve 450 college teachers’ ‘dislocation’ (transfer) happening under new e-transfer policy. The protesters had demanded delinking promotion policy from the newly-introduced e-transfer policy and linking their promotion with seat adjustment and upgrade in the same college.