Newly established educational institutions will no longer be given salary from the state exchequer in the form of monthly pay order, government officials said.
According to the latest statistics, the government needs to spend more than Tk 5,000 crore every year on the salary and other benefits of about 4.7 lakh teachers and employees in about
28,000 secondary schools, madrassahs and colleges.
Besides, teachers and employees of about 9,000 schools, madrassahs and colleges have been lobbying for the monthly pay order for a few years.
In Bangladesh, educational institutions are set up on private initiatives. The government later start giving salary to the teachers and employees in the form of monthly pay order.
Launched in 1981, the latest MPO enlistment came up in 2010. Lawmakers of the ruling political party and some bureaucrats had lobbied for MPO enlistment.
‘No more MPOs. Wholesale MPO can continue no longer,’ the finance minister, Abul Maal Abdul Muhith told newsmen in the past week.
‘More institutions will be given MPOs only if fund is available. We had a list from lawmakers for MPOs,’ the education minister, Nurul Islam Nahid, told New Age in the past week. He said that there was a huge pressure from lawmakers for more MPO enlistment.
Rashed Khan Menon, chairman of the parliamentary standing committee on the education ministry, told New Age that the government should allow more institutions under MPO facilities as there is a huge pressure from institutions which have been in queues for the past few years.
Mazharul Hannan, president of the Bangladesh College Principals’ Council, said that the MPO should be given on a need-based assessment. ‘The growth of unplanned educational institutions should be stopped. Such unwanted growth has created a chaotic situation,’ he added.
Courtesy of New Age
