Staff correspondent
Bangladesh Non-Govern-ment Primary Schoolteachers’ Association leaders on Tues-day expressed disappointment about the absence of any pledge for the nationalisation of their jobs in the election manifestos of major political parties.
‘In the manifestos for the 2001 elections, both the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and the Awami League pledged to nationalise all non-government primary schools. But the BNP did not implement the pledge during its tenure,’ the association’s president Mohammad Shamsul Alam told newsmen at a briefing in Dhaka.
‘We are shocked to find that the manifestos of the BNP and the Awami League have not said anything about job nationalisation and removal of discrimination in payment,’ he said. ‘We have been demanding job nationalisation for 17 years.’
‘We will hold a teachers’ rally at the Central Shaheed Minar on April 1 if the new government does not take any step to nationalise our jobs,’ he said. He claimed there were more than 1 lakh teachers in more than 25,000 non-government registered primary schools across the country.
Senior leaders of the association also attended the briefing.
Courtesy: newagebd.com
