Eliminate Pay Discrimination
Primary education is the foundation of education. If the primary education phase is strengthened then be smooth the path of later education. Therefore, neglecting primary education means challenging a better life and a prosperous nation. The role of teachers in ensuring quality basic education is undeniable. And if the honourable teachers don’t get their deserved honour and salary it is difficult to meet the objective of quality primary education. At present, more than 400000 teachers of about 66000 government primary schools in the country suffer from pay discrimination. In order to get rid of this discrimination, from 2014 the teachers have been demanding salaries in 10th grade for Head Teachers and 11th for Assistant Teachers.
On the eve of the last parliamentary elections the ruling party, Bangladesh Awami League, wrote in their election manifesto a written promise to eliminate such discrimination properly. Besides, through the recorded audio call Sheikh Hasina, Hon’ble Prime Minister and the daughter of the Nation’s father Bangabandhu, also gave word about reducing teacher’s dignity and salary discrimination. Recently, the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education has raised the assistant teacher’s salary grade in 13th grade from 14th and 15th. But according to the prevailing rules of determining salaries in advanced grades, it will reduce the salary of lion parts teachers.
In this circumstance, providing a quality education with maintaining a positive attitude is questionable. So to make ‘Mujib Borsho’ prosperous and promote the country and the nation on the path of prosperity and prosperity it is so much necessary to eliminate the existing pay discrimination with giving 10th grade to head teachers and the 11th to the assistant teachers.
Abu Faruk
Assistant Teacher, Vagyakul Govt. Primary School,
Sadar, Bandarban
