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Primary school teachers on streets for 10th grade facilities

News Desk || risingbd.com

Published: 17:40, 24 January 2025   Update: 17:58, 24 January 2025
Primary school teachers on streets for 10th grade facilities

Teachers of government primary schools are on streets to press home their demand of 10th grade pay-scale.

Thousands of teachers gathered at Central Shaheed Minar on Friday under their programme ‘Long March to Dhaka’. Teachers from Dhaka and adjoining districts attended the gathering.

Assistant teachers of primary schools made the same demands to the government in their speeches. 

They want their jobs to be upgraded to the tenth grade of the pay scale.

Nurul Haque Nur, President of the Gono Odhikar Parishad, joined the teachers in solidarity. 

In his speech, Nur also called upon the government to accept the demands of the primary teachers. 

Their rally moved towards the Chief Adviser’s residence from Central Shaheed Minar but police stopped them at Shahbagh. 

The teachers are currently employed under the 13th grade, which classifies them as blue collar workers and allows only Tk11,000 monthly salary. Under the 10th grade, they would get Tk16,000 per month, they claimed.

 

Raihan/Mukul