Assistant teachers of government primary schools are set to launch a fresh protest programme, demanding that their salaries be raised to the 10th grade pay scale and to press for long-pending promotions. The protest action is being organised under the banner of the "Primary Teachers’ Demand Implementation Council", a coalition of four teacher organisations. “Starting Saturday, 20,000 teachers will stage a sit-in at Shaheed Minar to demand 10th-grade pay, higher grade benefits, and promotions. The protest will continue until our demands are met," Khairun Nahar Lipi, general secretary of the Bangladesh Primary Teachers’ Association (Shahin–Lipi), said on Friday. This time, we’ll return home only after we achieve our demands on the streets.”Bangladesh currently has 65,567 government primary schools employing around 384,000 teachers, according to the Directorate of Primary Education.

Source: bd News24 November 07, 2025 14:26 UTC