Non-MPO teachers threaten movement

Non-MPO (monthly payment order) teachers threatened to go for a non-stop movement from January 8 if their demand to take them under MPO was not met immediately.

They came up with the ultimatum at a divisional meeting in the town yesterday.

Organised by Non-MPO Teachers and Employees Association, the programme was held in Krishnachura area of Mymensingh Railway Station.

Hundreds of teachers from Mymensingh, Sherpur, Jamalpur, Netrakona and Tangail took part at the programme.

The speakers at the programme demanded government's immediate steps to take them under MPO.

Some 10,000 teachers and employees of non-MPO institutions in Mymensingh division have been doing their jobs for years without any salary, they said.

Like teachers of the same category in other parts of the country, those in Mymensingh have been passing a miserable life but the government is totally indifferent to the matter, said the speakers.

They also threatened to go for a non-stop movement in front of Jatiya Press Club in Dhaka from January 8 if the demand was not met immediately.

Central vice president of the association Sharifuzzaman Aga Khan, former upazila parishad chairman Fayezur Rahman Fakir and Principal Md Delwar Hossain Shibli spoke at the programme.