The government has formed a cabinet committee to review the pay structure for public university teachers.
A gazette notification was issued in this regard on Wednesday.
Finance Minister AMA Muhith was made head of the body, it said.
The move came after months of protests by the public university teachers, demanding a separate pay structure for them.
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Teachers of 37 public universities across the country have been enforcing strike at all public universities, pressing for their demands including reviewing the 8th national pay scale.
They have been protesting the Eighth National Pay Scale since May 14, advocating a four-point charter of demands that includes the formation of a commission to initiate an independent pay scale for public university teachers.
The other demands of the public university teachers are salary and allowance parity between senior professors and senior secretaries, and between professors and secretaries; upgrading the status of teachers in the warrant of precedence; and the provision of cars and other allowances for teachers similar to provisions given to bureaucrats.
