MPO-listed teachers observe strike at 37,000 institutions

Classes at the MPO-listed (monthly payment order) academic institutions across the country were suspended on Sunday due to a strike called by agitating teachers demanding nationalisation of their schools and colleges, reports UNB.

There are 37,000 MPO-listed schools and colleges in the country where teachers get a part of their salaries from public coffer.

These institutions observed the strike in solidarity with several hundred teachers and employees of non-government educational institutions who were staging a hunger strike for seventh straight day on Sunday in front of the National Press Club. They are on a fast unto death programme, asking for nationalisation of all MPO-listed educational institutions.

The teachers and employees went on the hunger strike under the banner of "Beshorkari Sikkha Jatiyakoron Liaison Forum," a platform of six organisations of teachers and employees all over the country, from January 15.