Staff Reporter :The teachers of 37 public universities will observe work abstention programmes today (Thursday) for realisation of a separate pay scale for them.Prior to it, the Federation of Bangladesh University Teachers’ Association (FBUTA) in a press release said that they would be compelled to go for indefinite work abstention in case of the government’s failure to meet the demand by September 17.President of the association Professor Farid Uddin Ahmed told The New Nation yesterday that they would abstain from work, but not from examinations. “We still hope that the Prime Minister will accept our demands,” he said adding that Dhaka University Teachers Association are united to press home their demand.The teachers of the public universities have been agitating against the 8th National Pay Scale since May 14, advocating a four-point charter of demands that includes the formation of a commission to draft an independent Pay Scale for public university teachers.The other demands of the public university teachers are salary and allowance parity between senior professors and senior secretaries, and between professors and secretaries; upgrading the status of teachers in the warrant of precedence; and the provision of cars and other allowances for teachers similar to provisions given to bureaucrats.
