Govt college teachers submit memo to education minister

Demonstrating government college teachers yesterday provided a memorandum to the education minister demanding reinstatement of the selection grade and time scale in the eighth pay scale.

They also demanded that the "discrimination" in teachers' salaries at all levels compared to government bureaucrats be removed.

Teachers of 305 state-run colleges have been on a movement, spearheaded by BCS General Education Association, a platform of teachers and officials under the education cadre, to press home their four-point demand after the cabinet approved the 8th pay scale for all government employees on September 7.

Officials under this cadre working in all education boards, government Alia madrasas, teachers' training colleges and  commercial colleges were also in the movement. They have abstained from work thrice so far.

Yesterday, a delegation of BCS General Education Association led by its president, Prof Nasrin Begum, and secretary general, Prof IK Selim Ullah Khondaker, submitted the memorandum at Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid's office at Bangladesh Secretariat.

According to the memorandum, the professors, grade-4 officers, earlier could retire in grade-3 because of the selection grade.