No compromise, teachers firm on allowance demands

Member-Secretary of the MPO-listed Education Nationalisation Expectant Alliance, Principal Delwar Hossain Azizi, has said that house rent allowance will not be reduced by even 1% from the demanded 20%. Similarly, the proposed medical allowance of Tk 1,499 will not be accepted—it must be raised to Tk 1,500. He also demanded that employees’ festival bonuses be paid at 75%. Otherwise, the movement will continue. “Our protests will go on until the demands are met. We are heading to Shahbagh shortly to enforce a blockade programme,” he announced on Wednesday (October 15) at a sit-in demonstration of teachers at the Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka. Azizi further warned that if incidents of violence and harassment against teachers across the country are not...