Non-govt teachers, staff want salaries in new pay scale

FE Report
Teachers and staff of the country's non-government schools and colleges announced Sunday 21-point demands including payment of their salaries according to the newly proposed national pay scale.
Their demands also include establishing a separate directorate for the secondary schools, modernisation of the service rules for school and college teachers, and upgrading the primary stage to class VIII and the secondary level to class XII.     
On behalf of the community people, coordinator the Jatiya Shikkhak-Karmachari Front, a platform of 11 organisations of the teachers and employees, Kazi Faruque Ahmed placed the demands through a press conference held at the National Press Club in the capital.
Mr Ahmed said to materialise these demands, they will submit a memorandum to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on January 07, and to the ministry of education and the ministry of finance on January 08, 2015.
He said the government must take necessary measures to pay their salaries and other benefits according to the newly proposed national pay scale, making the same effective from the same day as of the government service holders.
The Pay and Service Commission, led by its Chairman Mohammad Farashuddin, recently recommended that the government should increase salaries of public servants by 100 per cent on an average and implement the same from July next year.
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