Supreme Court upholds order granting 10th grade scale to headteachers
In 2019, the HC ordered the government to notify the names of headteacher in the official gazette as second class gazetted officers
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Publish : 06 Jan 2022, 05:39 PMUpdate : 22 Feb 2022, 11:19 AM
The Supreme Court has upheld a High Court order that asked the government to grant 10th grade scale to headteachers of government primary schools and also list them as second class gazetted officers.
The Appellate division bench led by Chief Justice Hasan Foez Siddique gave the order on Thursday after hearing a writ challenging the High Court’s verdict on Thursday.
In February 2019, the High Court ordered the government to notify the names of headmasters in the official gazette as class-two gazetted officers of government primary schools from March 9, 2014.
The petitioners’ lawyer Advocate Salahuddin Dolon told journalists that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on March 9, 2014 directed the authorities concerned to upgrade the status of head teachers of government primary schools to second-class, and the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education issued a gazette notification to this effect on the same day. But the ministry fixed the salary scale of government primary school headmasters at 11th grade.
Reaz Parvez, president of Bangladesh Government Primary Headmasters Association told journalists that a writ was filed by 45 headmasters of primary schools challenging the legality of the order by the ministry of education in this regard.
Supreme Court upholds order granting 10th grade scale to headteachers
In 2019, the HC ordered the government to notify the names of headteacher in the official gazette as second class gazetted officers
The Supreme Court has upheld a High Court order that asked the government to grant 10th grade scale to headteachers of government primary schools and also list them as second class gazetted officers.
The Appellate division bench led by Chief Justice Hasan Foez Siddique gave the order on Thursday after hearing a writ challenging the High Court’s verdict on Thursday.
In February 2019, the High Court ordered the government to notify the names of headmasters in the official gazette as class-two gazetted officers of government primary schools from March 9, 2014.
The petitioners’ lawyer Advocate Salahuddin Dolon told journalists that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on March 9, 2014 directed the authorities concerned to upgrade the status of head teachers of government primary schools to second-class, and the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education issued a gazette notification to this effect on the same day. But the ministry fixed the salary scale of government primary school headmasters at 11th grade.
Reaz Parvez, president of Bangladesh Government Primary Headmasters Association told journalists that a writ was filed by 45 headmasters of primary schools challenging the legality of the order by the ministry of education in this regard.
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