Countrywide NFTE protest today

NFTE leaders yesterday urged the teachers and employees across the country to make the programme a success.

They said they will continue agitation until their demands are met.

They have also urged all aggrieved teachers and employees to make the August 1 programme to blockade main roads and river routes of district headquarters a success.

‘Without taking any initiative to resolve the stalemate arising from non-government teachers' and employees' strike across the country, the government and its agents are hatching conspiracy to foil the ongoing movement,' Prof Kazi Faruk Ahmed, NFTE chief coordinator and convenor, said in a statement yesterday.

The demands include 10 per cent salary with arrears since 2001, treatment allowance and increment according to existing scale, proper house rent, full festival allowance, new MPO for those who are working without salary, reinstatement of sacked teachers and employees, service rule for the employees and withdrawal of the nine rules imposed on January 5 last year.

"The teachers and employees are determined to achieve their goal at any price," the statement said, adding that the more the government will resort to conspiracy and deceit, the more NFTE will strengthen their movement.