Assistant teachers of government primary schools, whose appointments were cancelled by a court order, continued their protest for 14 days in a row on Wednesday demanding their appointments.
The protesters gathered in front of the Bangladesh National Museum at about 10:00am on the day and held their sit-in programme till 6:00pm.
鈥榃e have decided to continue our protests till our one-point demand [appointment for the government job] is met,鈥� a protester Mohib Bullah told 抖阴精品.
The High Court on February 6 declared illegal and scrapped the November 20, 2024, appointment of 6,531 assistant teachers in government primary schools in Dhaka and Chattogram based on job quotas as per the 2019 recruitment rules.
The 2019 recruitment rules allow 60 per cent quota for women, 20 per cent for wards and 20 per cent for males in recruiting teachers to government primary schools.
The recommended teachers have been staging demonstrations since the court verdict.
The Directorate of Primary Education on February 13 appealed against the verdict and the Appellate Division on February 18 posted a full-court hearing for March 2.
Earlier on February 10, 13 and 16, police used batons, water cannons, sound grenades and fired tear gas shells to disperse the protesters from Shahbagh and near the Bangladesh Secretariat in the capital, leaving some of them injured while police had picked up some protesters who were released later.
