Teachers of the country’s public universities will go on an indefinite strike from January 11 to realise their various demands, including the removal of discriminations in the 8th Pay Scale, retaining selection grade and time scale. General Secretary of the Federation of Bangladesh University Teachers’ Association (FBUTA) SM Maksud Kamal announced the programme at a press briefing at Dhaka University’s Mozaffar Ahmed Chowdhury Auditorium on Saturday. Maksud Kamal said they will abstain from all kinds of academic activities from the day until their demands are met. He said they will sit with the government for discussion if the government wants, but they will continue their movement until their demands are met with publishing it in a gazette. “The Finance Minister had promised but our demands are left unmet,” he said. The teachers will go to classrooms wearing black badges from Sunday (January 3) to January 7 and observe sit-in programmes on their respective campuses from 11 am to 1pm on January 7. Representatives of 37 public universities were present at the briefing. — Dhaka, Jan 2 (UNB)
