Bangladesh College-University Teachers Association—a platform of non-government teachers—on Monday demanded that the house rent and medical allowance for non-government teachers who are on monthly pay order should be increased from Tk 100 and Tk 150.
They also demanded that their festival allowance should be upgraded from 25 percent to 100 percent.
'It is completely disgraceful that non-government teachers get only Tk 100 as house rent and Tk 150 for medical allowance. We get only 25 percent of the salary as the festival allowance,' said Abdur Rashid, executive president of Bangladesh College- University Teachers Association.
'We demand that non-government teachers will get the same house rent and medical allowance as the government teachers get. We also demand that our festival allowance is upgraded to 100 percent of the salary,' he added.
The organisation made the demand at a press briefing at Dhaka Reporters Unity on Monday. Among others, the organisation's executive president Abdur Rashid, secretary general Sirajul Haque, vice-president AFM Nazrul Majid spoke at the briefing.
At the press briefing, the teachers put forward a written 10-point demand. The demand includes implementation of separate salary structure for teachers, creating a public service commission for non-government teachers and immediate implementation of time scale for teachers.
Source : New Age
