Headmaster Roughed up by Staffs
Teachers besiege Dinajpur education board office
Teachers of schools and colleges in Dinajpur parade town yesterday protesting assault of a headmaster by a section of education board staff on February 22.Photo: STAR
Teachers of secondary and higher secondary educational institutes in the district laid a siege to the Dinajpur Education Board office protesting alleged attack on one of their colleagues by a section of staffs of the board on February 22. Demanding stern punishment against the offenders within 48 hours, Md. Saifuddin Akter, convener of Dianjpur Teachers Community' submitted a memorandum to the chairman of Dinajpur Education Board. Abdul Mojid, secretary of Dinajpur Education Board received the memorandum on behalf of chairman Taslima Akter Banu. In the memorandum, the teachers placed a 4-point demand including removal of the master roll staffs involved in the attack. Parimal Chandra Roy, headmaster of Paschim Mallikpur High School of Kaharol upazila came under attack after he came to the education board for getting an approval of his school's managing committee. The attack was allegedly launched by Humayun Kabir Polash, Alamgir Ahmed, Montu Ram Roy and Razu Ahmed as the teacher declined to pay bribes. “I was dragged down to ground floor through the staircase and forced out of the complex,” narrated Porimal with tearful eyes. "They also threatened to kill me if I come to the board office again", he added. The incident angered the teacher community of the entire district and they held an emergency meeting on February 26. About one thousand teachers of different educational institutes of the district gathered at Dinajpur Lok Bhaban Complex yesterday morning and brought out a protest procession in the town. Later the processionists marched to education board office at Balubari in the town and besieged it for an hour till 2.00 pm. A rally was also held in front of education board where the speakers alleged that politicisation of the education has become a threat to the teachers community. Bribery and intimidation are common as most of the staffs were appointed illegally and under political consideration, they said. The teachers' community also vowed to build strong resistance to protect the education board from 'the evil-doers'.
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