‘March to Secretariat’: MPO teachers give government deadline until afternoon

The MPO-affiliated teachers and employees have given the government some more time to accept three of their key demands, including raising their housing allowance to 20 percent of their salary. The announcement came on Tuesday as the protesters postponed their planned “March to the Secretariat” from Shaheed Minar. According to the protesting teachers, the march was scheduled for Tuesday afternoon but has been put on hold for now. “If the government does not accept the demands, the ‘March to Secretariat’ programme will be held in the afternoon,” said Principal Delwar Hossain Azizi, member secretary of the MPO-affiliated Education Nationalisation Alliance. “We are not withdrawing the ‘March to Secretariat’ programme, but it is not happening now,” Azizi said. “The administration and...