Strike at Registered Schools
No class held on second day
Teachers of non-government registered primary schools continued their strike for the second day yesterday by locking up classrooms across the country demanding nationalisation of their job.
They will abstain from taking classes for three days starting from today to press home their demand.
The teachers have been staging the demonstrations called by National Non-Government (registered) Primary Teachers' Oikya Parishad, a platform of four organisations of non-government primary teachers.
This closure in academic activities put a negative impact on the education of several lakhs students of such 24,000 schools at the very beginning of the academic session as many of them are yet to get admission and receive textbooks.
The leaders of the parishad said they will come to the schools today, sign in the attendance sheets and do other activities like student admission or distributing books, but will not take classes.
They, however, urged all teachers to take extra classes to fill the gap created due to the two-day strike.
In favour of their demand, the parishad will hold a series of programme, including submitting a memorandum to all 345 members of parliament from January 20 to February 20 and to the Speaker in parliament on March 14 and lay siege to the Prime Minister's Office on April 10.
More than 98,000 teachers are working in around 24,000 non-government registered primary schools across the country. There are over 87,000 primary schools of different types in the country.
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