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The Non-Government Primary Teachers’ Association, Bangladesh submitted a memorandum to the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on Tuesday to press home their demands for salary, status and other benefits equal to what government primary teachers receive.
A procession of several hundred teachers gathered in front of the National Press Club and marched towards the Prime Minister’s Office to submit the memorandum.
Law enforcers, however, stopped them at Shahbagh where the teachers held a brief rally.
Later, a four-member delegation went to the PMP and submitted the memorandum.
The association’s president Shamsul Alam said that the nationalisation of non-government primary teacher’s job was an election pledge of the incumbent government but the government was yet to fulfil its promise.
‘In the previous three budgets of the incumbent government, teachers did not get any benefits. Although thousands of crores of takas were spent on primary education, the money was not spent non improving the quality of education,’ Shamsul said.
‘If government fails to allocate money for our salary increase in the next budget, we will go for a tougher movement,’ he added.
Shamsul said that teachers were leading a miserable life with the poor salary they receive amid the current price spiral.
There are 24,000 registered non-government primary schools in the country. The government gives financial assistance to these teachers but the amount is lower than what government teachers receive.
An assistant teacher at one these schools gets Tk 5,300 as the monthly salary whereas an assistant teacher at a government primary school gets Tk 8,050 a month.
In December 2011, the teachers observed several programmes, including hunger strikes and sit-ins, calling for the same demands.
In January, they locked their schools up for a couple of days and abstained from work. They later agreed to return to classes after getting assurance from top officials of the primary and mass education ministry.
The teachers on Tuesday said that the promises the officials made at that time were not implemented which prompted them to take to the streets again.
They said that they would observe a sit-in today.
A procession of several hundred teachers gathered in front of the National Press Club and marched towards the Prime Minister’s Office to submit the memorandum.
Law enforcers, however, stopped them at Shahbagh where the teachers held a brief rally.
Later, a four-member delegation went to the PMP and submitted the memorandum.
The association’s president Shamsul Alam said that the nationalisation of non-government primary teacher’s job was an election pledge of the incumbent government but the government was yet to fulfil its promise.
‘In the previous three budgets of the incumbent government, teachers did not get any benefits. Although thousands of crores of takas were spent on primary education, the money was not spent non improving the quality of education,’ Shamsul said.
‘If government fails to allocate money for our salary increase in the next budget, we will go for a tougher movement,’ he added.
Shamsul said that teachers were leading a miserable life with the poor salary they receive amid the current price spiral.
There are 24,000 registered non-government primary schools in the country. The government gives financial assistance to these teachers but the amount is lower than what government teachers receive.
An assistant teacher at one these schools gets Tk 5,300 as the monthly salary whereas an assistant teacher at a government primary school gets Tk 8,050 a month.
In December 2011, the teachers observed several programmes, including hunger strikes and sit-ins, calling for the same demands.
In January, they locked their schools up for a couple of days and abstained from work. They later agreed to return to classes after getting assurance from top officials of the primary and mass education ministry.
The teachers on Tuesday said that the promises the officials made at that time were not implemented which prompted them to take to the streets again.
They said that they would observe a sit-in today.
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