Teachers of nationalised primary schools on Monday threatened to announce tougher programmes if their eight-point demand, including preparing a gradation/promotion list taking into consideration 50 per cent of the service life, is not met by June 30 next, reports UNB.
Convener of the Nationalised Primary School Teachers' Grand Alliance Mohammad Aminul Islam Chowdhury came up with announcement at a press conference at the Jatiya Press Club in the city.
He thanked Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for nationalising 26,193 non-government primary schools in 2013.
Aminul alleged that an evil effort is on to deprive the head teachers and assistant teachers of the nationalised primary schools of financial facilities, including time scale, through the misinterpretation of sub-section 1 of section 9 of SRO-315, 2013.
"We'll submit a memorandum to the Prime Minister through all deputy commissioners on June 12 and hold a grand rally at the Central Shaheed Minar in the capital on June 30 if our demands are not met by then," he said.
The other demands include implementing higher scale for head teachers based on time scale, publishing a gazette afresh including the head teachers who were dropped earlier, changing the code 99 to 1 of nationalised primary schools, placing assistant teachers under 10th grade and incorporating a provision of their promotion up to the director general, resolving the financial problems of teachers who are enjoying PRL, creating pre-primary teacher posts in the nationalised schools and appointing an office assistant-cum-night guard in each school.
SM Abdul Gafur, general secretary of Bangabandhu Primary Teachers' Parishad, Sheikh Abdus Salam Mia, general secretary of Bangladesh Digital Primary Teachers' Samity, Md Mahbubul Alam, secretary general of Bangladesh Primary Teachers' Samity were, among others, present at the press conference.
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