Dhaka, Jun 21 (Just News): The two committees formed to decide monthly pay order for non-government educational institutions will sit for a joint meeting on Monday.
However, the agitating teachers’ once again announced on Thursday that they would continue their on-going demonstration until all their demands are met.
Officials said the two committees to deal with MPO matters will hold a joint meeting at Bangladesh Bureau of Educational Information and Statistics office in the capital at 11am Monday.
The committees will receive applications for MPO enlistment and after necessary scrutiny will make recommendation to the government.
Despite such development, the agitating teachers under the banner of Federation of Teachers and Employees of Non-MPO Educational Institutions, agitating for the past few days, remained adamant about not withholding their demonstration programme. They were holding a sit-in demonstration in front of the National Press Club.
The government is saying that around 1,000 institutions would be brought under the coverage of the official pay roll, based on a new policy.
But, the teachers demand enlisting of all recognised non-government educational institutions based on the existing policy.
A nine-member ‘institute scrutiny committee’, headed by Zabed Ahmed, secretary of secondary and higher education directorate, was formed on Wednesday.
This committee, the ministry officials said, will submit recommendations to the government as per Private Educational Institutes’ (school and college) Manpower and MPO Policy-2018.
Another eight-member committee, led by Bangladesh Bureau of Educational Information and Statistics (BANBEIS) director general Md Fashiullah, has been assigned to make a list as per the MPO applications.
The MPO enlistment is being done after eight years and especially when the country is heading for the general elections.
There are 5,242 approved non-MPO institutions with around 80,000 employees. Some 1,624 institutions were included in the MPO list in 2010 last.
(Justnews/ys/2313hr)
