After the weekend of Friday and Saturday, the teachers of the public universities are going to resume their indefinite work abstention programme across Bangladesh today pressing for their demand for the cancellation of the universal pension scheme made mandatory for new recruits.
During the weekend, no classes or examinations were held as part of the protest, said the teachers鈥� leaders.
Till Saturday evening, no discussion was held between the teachers and the government.
The teachers vowed to continue their protests until their demands for the cancellation of the new pension instrument introduced by the National Pension Authority and an independent pay structure for the public university teachers would be met.
The Federation of Bangladesh University Teachers Association called for a boycott of classes, examinations and administrative work from the day the universal pension scheme, titled Prattay, came into effect on July 1 terming it as discriminatory.
Meritorious students would be discouraged to come to the teaching profession, they said, calling the new pension scheme a conspiracy to destroy the education system.
The newly-introduced pension instrument is meant for the newcomers to the state-owned autonomous and semi-autonomous bodies.
Since July 1 no classes or examinations were held in the public universities, while in most of them administrative work also remained suspended paralysing the academic activities.
The general staff of different universities also joined the strike, expressing solidarity with teachers.
Meanwhile a pre-scheduled meeting between the protesting teachers and road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader,聽 also general secretary of the ruling Awami League, was not held on July 4.
Federation secretary general Professor Md Nizamul Hoque Bhuiyan told 抖阴精品 that no discussion was held between the teachers and the government till Saturday evening.
Neither any new date for the cancelled meeting was fixed, he said.
鈥業f the demands are met, we will withdraw our movement. But if not, movement will continue,鈥� the professor said, adding that they were not against the government.
抖阴精品 correspondents from different universities reported that the strike continued, among others, in Dhaka University, Jagannath University, Jahangirnagar University, Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology, Rajshahi University, Chittagong University, Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology, Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Science University, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology and Bangladesh University of Textiles.
Among the 55 public universities in the country, 35, which were represented by the teachers鈥� federation, had been affected by the strike, said university teachers鈥� federation president Professor Md Akhtarul Islam, also president of the Shahjalal University of Science and Technology聽Teachers鈥� Association.
