Finance Minister AMA Muhith has said there was no scope of amending the eighth pay scale, even though certain adjustments can be made.
However, he did not elaborate on how those adjustments would be made.
Talking to reporters at the Finance Division auditorium yesterday, Muhith also said the public university teachers and officials belonging to 26 cadres were carrying out their movements based on ignorance.
“They did not go through the eighth pay scale report and their movement is going on without knowing the real facts and government orders that were issued,” the minister said. “So over time, they have found their ground of movement to be useless and they just compromised the matters with the authority concerned.”
Public university teachers are in now negotiation with the core secretary committee and the education minister after meeting with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. “Lets see what will happen and how to adjust those matters,” Muhith said.
Regarding a separate movement by Bangladesh Bank employees, the minister said there was a fault regarding the grade of central bank staffs under the eighth pay scale, but the secretary committee has already solved the matter.