BANGLADESH

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has declared a raise in the status of assistant teachers of government secondary schools from the third grade to the second grade.

The declaration came from a meeting of the Bangladesh Government Secondary Teachers Association at Dhaka Residential Model College on Tuesday.

She pointed out that her government had raised the status of headmasters and assistant headmasters of government secondary schools from the second grade to the first grade.

"I declare now from here that from this moment onward, assistant teachers are alleviated from the third grade to the second grade."

The association's general secretary Mohammad Imon Ali placed the long-standing demand of secondary assistant teachers before the Prime Minister in his welcome address.

"If we do not show proper respect to the teachers, we will not produce students with self-respect and the country will not progress far," Hasina said, adding that no one can now neglect the teachers.