Teachers and employees of non-government educational institutions held a symbolic procession with padlocks in Barisal yesterday, demanding job nationalisation and unconditional inclusion in the new pay-scale.
Under the banner of the Jatiya Shikkhak Karmachari Front the procession started from City College campus.
Professor Mohsin ul Islam, divisional convener of the front, said if their demands were not met, they would lock their respective educational institutions with the padlocks that they brought at the rally.
A number of leaders and activists of the front called upon the teachers of non-government schools, colleges and madrasas to stand united in order to press the demands.
The speakers at the demonstration claimed that the stance of government regarding teachers and employees of the government and non-government educational institutions was “discriminatory.”
Government had neither included the teachers and employees of non-government educational institutions in the new pay-scale, nor had declared separate pay-commission for them, they said adding that the teachers and employees of government educational institutions would be automatically be included in the newly prepared pay-scale, like any other government service holder.
Demanding an unbiased education policy, they said their programme was not against the government but against the discrimination present in the system.
Their other demands included quick implementation of the National Education Policy 2010, increase in house rent, medical and festival allowances and fixing the retirement age of teachers at 65.
