They are pressing for four demands, including elevating their pay scale from Grade 10 to Grade 9 and the formation of an independent Directorate of Secondary Education without delay. Teachers from districts across the country joined the demonstration on Thursday morning under the banner of the Government Secondary Teachers’ Association. A Directorate of Secondary Education should be formed immediately and the gazette published. Publishing the gazette restoring the advance salary benefits for assistant teachers with three or two increments, as they had before 2015. “We will enforce a complete shutdown in government secondary schools.”According to DSHE, there are 721 government secondary schools across the country.

Source: bd News24 November 27, 2025 10:29 UTC