Staff Reporter :
The diploma engineers have rejected the 8th National Pay Scale and announced a charter of eight-point demands, including an immediate amendment to the pay scale in order to remove disparity in salary between diploma engineers and B.Sc engineers.
They said that a vested group inside the government misguided the Finance Minister in creating discrimination in the 8th National Pay Scale.
In a press conference on Saturday, the leaders of the Institution of Diploma Engineers Bangladesh (IDEB) demanded removal of disparity in the pay scale
between diploma engineers and degree engineers. President of IDEB Engineer A K M Hamid in the press conference said that the government gave the diploma engineers an assurance that their existing facilities would be increased and expanded in future.
But frustration has caught the diploma engineers since the publication of the gazette on Thursday last containing disparity in salary between the B.Sc engineers and the diploma engineers, A K M Hamid said.
He said, a diploma engineer on appointment as sub-assistant engineer will get Tk 16,000 as salary. After 10 years in service, he will be entitled to Tk 22,000 in the ninth grade and then Tk 23,000 after 16 years in the 8th grade.
Contrarily, a B.Sc engineer as assistant engineer on appointment will get Tk 23,000 as salary. After 16 years, he will be getting Tk 50,000 in the 4th grade. It means that a diploma engineer will get Tk 23,000 in 16 years of service whereas a B.SC engineer will get Tk 50,000 in the same years, creating a difference of Tk 27,000 only. This is really sorrowful.
General Secretary of IDEB Md Shamsur Rahman in his written speech at the conference said, the diploma engineers are quite frustrated. Fifty thousand diploma engineers are always contributing to the development of the country. They want justice.
The diploma engineers will organize human chain programme in Dhaka on December 22 and across the country on 23-24 December and will submit memorandum to the Deputy Commissioners of the districts.
The diploma engineers have rejected the 8th National Pay Scale and announced a charter of eight-point demands, including an immediate amendment to the pay scale in order to remove disparity in salary between diploma engineers and B.Sc engineers.
They said that a vested group inside the government misguided the Finance Minister in creating discrimination in the 8th National Pay Scale.
In a press conference on Saturday, the leaders of the Institution of Diploma Engineers Bangladesh (IDEB) demanded removal of disparity in the pay scale
between diploma engineers and degree engineers. President of IDEB Engineer A K M Hamid in the press conference said that the government gave the diploma engineers an assurance that their existing facilities would be increased and expanded in future.
But frustration has caught the diploma engineers since the publication of the gazette on Thursday last containing disparity in salary between the B.Sc engineers and the diploma engineers, A K M Hamid said.
He said, a diploma engineer on appointment as sub-assistant engineer will get Tk 16,000 as salary. After 10 years in service, he will be entitled to Tk 22,000 in the ninth grade and then Tk 23,000 after 16 years in the 8th grade.
Contrarily, a B.Sc engineer as assistant engineer on appointment will get Tk 23,000 as salary. After 16 years, he will be getting Tk 50,000 in the 4th grade. It means that a diploma engineer will get Tk 23,000 in 16 years of service whereas a B.SC engineer will get Tk 50,000 in the same years, creating a difference of Tk 27,000 only. This is really sorrowful.
General Secretary of IDEB Md Shamsur Rahman in his written speech at the conference said, the diploma engineers are quite frustrated. Fifty thousand diploma engineers are always contributing to the development of the country. They want justice.
The diploma engineers will organize human chain programme in Dhaka on December 22 and across the country on 23-24 December and will submit memorandum to the Deputy Commissioners of the districts.
