Teachers observe strike in 37,000 schools, colleges

Classes in the MPO-listed (monthly payment order) academic institutions across the country were suspended today due to a strike called by agitating teachers asking for nationalisations of their schools and colleges.

There are 37,000 MPO-listed schools and colleges in the country where teachers get a part of their salaries from public coffer.

These institutions observed the strike on Sunday in solidarity with several hundred teachers and employees of non-government educational institutions staging a hunger strike for seventh straight day today in front of National Press Club. They are on a fast unto death programme, asking for nationalization of all MPO-listed educational institutions.  

The teachers and employees went on the hunger strike under the banner of “Beshorkari Sikkha Jatiyakoron Liaison Forum,” a platform of six organisations of teachers and employees all over the country, from January 15.

Source: unb