<i>A different day for 74 teachers</i>
First festival bonus in years of service as local lawmaker, UP chairman take initiative
For the first time during years of service, 74 teachers and 17 employees of eight educational institutions outside the government's monthly payment order (MPO) have got festival bonus as Bhangura upazila parishad under Pabna district made the arrangement with the help of local lawmaker.
Each teacher and employee got Tk 5 thousand and Tk 2.5 thousand as Md Baki Billah, chairman of Bhangura upazila parishad, distributed Tk 4.3 lakh as bonus for them on the occasion of upcoming Eid ul Azha and ongoing Durga Puja at a programme held at Bhangura upazila parishad auditorium on Monday afternoon.
“Md Mokbul Hossain, lawmaker from Pabna-3 constituency, gave Tk 1.5 lakh from his personal fund while I arranged the rest amount from the affluent people of the upazila,” said the upazila chairman.
"Non-MPO teachers do not get any salary from the government. As they urged the local administration to give festival bonus on the occasion of Eid and puja, we made the arrangement. We hope it will inspire them to pay more attention to their service,” Baki Billah, also coordinator of the upazila education committee, said.
“We have been in teaching service for years but we do not get any salary from the government, let of bonus. Now we are happy to get the festival bonus for the first time,” Md Kabir Hossain, superintendent of Nurnagar Dakhil Madrasa in the upazila, said.
There are nine non-MPO schools and madrasas in Bhangura upazila, upazila parishad sources said, adding that teachers and employees of another institution will get the special bonus tomorrow.
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