Hundreds of non-government primary school teachers holding demonstration at the Central Shaheed Minar have threatened self immolation if their demand for regularisation of jobs is not met.
"We will resort to this extreme step on Dec 27 if our demands are not met by then," said Mohammad Shamsul Alam of the National Non-Government Primary Teachers' Oikya Parishad, a platform comprising four organisations of non-government primary school teachers.
The teachers want the government to immediately nationalise 24,000 non-government primary schools and provide the 100,000-plus teachers with same privileges as those of government school teachers.
"Otherwise, a self immolation programme will be observed as part of the non-stop programmes that started from Dec 21," warned Alam.
Member secretary of the platform Abdur Rahman Bachchu told that no assurances had been received from the government, so far though the non-government registered schools are under the primary and mass education ministry.
Workers' Party president Rashed Khan Menon has expressed solidarity with the protesting teachers and assured that he would take up the matter with the education minister, said Bachchu, who is a teacher at Madaripur Police Line Primary School.
Assistant teacher of Faridpur's Zagdia Balia Primary School, Reena Parvin, who has left her four-year old child home to join protests, said she will not return home until the demands are met.
Younus Ali, headmaster of Pabna's Bhatkia Chodpara (reg.) School, urged the government to pay heed to the teachers' demands. "The government will need only Tk 4.2 billion to nationalise the non-government primary schools of the country," he added.
"We will resort to this extreme step on Dec 27 if our demands are not met by then," said Mohammad Shamsul Alam of the National Non-Government Primary Teachers' Oikya Parishad, a platform comprising four organisations of non-government primary school teachers.
The teachers want the government to immediately nationalise 24,000 non-government primary schools and provide the 100,000-plus teachers with same privileges as those of government school teachers.
"Otherwise, a self immolation programme will be observed as part of the non-stop programmes that started from Dec 21," warned Alam.
Member secretary of the platform Abdur Rahman Bachchu told that no assurances had been received from the government, so far though the non-government registered schools are under the primary and mass education ministry.
Workers' Party president Rashed Khan Menon has expressed solidarity with the protesting teachers and assured that he would take up the matter with the education minister, said Bachchu, who is a teacher at Madaripur Police Line Primary School.
Assistant teacher of Faridpur's Zagdia Balia Primary School, Reena Parvin, who has left her four-year old child home to join protests, said she will not return home until the demands are met.
Younus Ali, headmaster of Pabna's Bhatkia Chodpara (reg.) School, urged the government to pay heed to the teachers' demands. "The government will need only Tk 4.2 billion to nationalise the non-government primary schools of the country," he added.
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