Nationalisation of pry teachers' jobs demanded

21 December 2011, 18:00 PM

Staff Correspondent

National Non-Government Primary Teachers' Oikya Parishad will stage a sit-in at capital's Central Shaheed Minar today to press home their demand to nationalise jobs of non-governmental primary school teachers. Leaders of the parishad, a platform comprising of four organisations of non-governmental primary teachers, yesterday held a rally at the Shaheed Minar and submitted a memorandum to the Prime Minister's Office (PMO). Around 100 teachers from different districts joined the rally where speakers said despite assurances, no government has met their demand. The government announced nationalisation of their jobs in its election manifesto but did not implement it so far, they said. The police, however, intercepted their procession at Shahbagh intersection. Later, a four-member delegation submitted the memorandum to the PMO. At Shahbagh, the parishad President Mohammad Shamsul Alam said, "We will continue our movement until the government meets our demand." “We will observe a sit-in tomorrow [today] to press home our demand,” he added. Meanwhile, teachers deprived of government's Monthly Payment Order (PMO) staged a sit-in yesterday in front of Jatiya Press Club demanding the prime minister's interference to incorporate them into government payroll. The government enlisted teachers and employees of 1,662 educational institutes for MPO but 1,441 more teachers of different subjects, who have been teaching for long, are deprived of the facility.