Assistant teachers of government primary schools, whose appointments were cancelled by a court order, continued their protests for 10 days in a row on Saturday demanding their appointments.
The protesters held a daylong sit-in in front of the Bangladesh National Museum at Shahbagh in the capital on the day as part of their continuous demonstrations.
They are scheduled to organise a grand rally at Shahbagh on Sunday morning, a protester, Mohib Bullah, told ¶¶Òõ¾«Æ·.
‘We will only return home after ensuring our appointments,’ Mohib said, adding that protesters are continuing daylong sit-in in front of the museum and night-long sit-in in front of the National Press Club in the capital.
‘We have urged all the 6,531 teachers and their families to join the grand rally at Shahbagh on Sunday,’ said Mohib. Â
The Directorate of Primary Education on Thursday appealed against the High Court verdict on February 6 that declared illegal and scrapped the appointments of 6,531 assistant teachers in government primary schools.
The date of hearing, however, was not scheduled yet, said lawyer Kamruzzaman Bhuiyan on Saturday evening, who defended some of the disqualified job seekers’ writ petition seeking cancellation of the appointments.
Mohib said that protesters were eying the hearing and would announce tougher programmes if the High Court verdict was not cancelled.
Earlier on February 10 and 13, police used batons, water cannons and sound grenades to disperse the protesters during their Shahbagh blockade programmes, leaving some of them injured while police had picked up some protesters who were released later.
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 a 60 per cent quota for women, 20 per cent for wards and 20 per cent for males in recruiting teachers for government primary schools.
They have been staging demonstrations since the court verdict on February 6.