Assistant teachers of government primary schools, whose appointments were cancelled by a court order on February 6, continued their protest for 17 days in a row on Saturday demanding their appointments.
The protesters held a sit-in in front of the Bangladesh National Museum in the capital from about 10:00am to 6:00pm on the day, said Kawser Ahmed, a protester.
He said that no government official had contacted them yet.
鈥楢 full-court hearing is scheduled to be held on March 2. We will continue our demonstrations till ensuring our appointments,鈥� said Kawser.聽
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 recommended teachers have been staging demonstrations since February 6.
The Directorate of Primary Education on February 13 appealed against the verdict and the Appellate Division on February 18 posted a full-court hearing on 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.
