Teachers of Rajshahi University (RU), Dhaka University of Engineering and Technology (DUET), Gazipur, and Khulna University (KU) observed 2-hour work abstention yesterday demanding pay scale.
Our Rajshahi Correspondent reports: Rajshahi University Teachers Association (RUTA) observed work abstention demanding revision of 8th national pay scale including the salary structure of a senior professor or professor, equalising to senior secretariat range.
They started the programme at 11am which continued till 1pm. No class of the university was held.
The teachers also staged sit-in in front of the Senate building on the campus in this regard.
The function was presided over by the RUTA president Prof Ananda Kumar Saha while Syed Abdullah Al Mamun Chowdhury, Prof Dr Zahidul Islam, Prof Habibir Rahman, Prof Dr Fazlul Haque and Mamun Abdul Kaoium spoke among others.
Meanwhile, the scheduled exams of different department were held as usual during the work abstention.
RUTA president Prof Ananda Kumar Saha has said all the public university teachers have been disgraced in 8th pay scale.
“We urge the government to equalise the scale of university senior professor with the same grade of senior secretary and professor’s scale with the same scale of secretary”, he also said.