Time to make good on promises

By Nuzhat Rifa Ehsan, Dhaka
8 January 2018, 18:00 PM
UPDATED 9 January 2018, 00:00 AM
Finally, the hunger strike of the teachers of non-MPO educational institutions came to an end following the prime minister's assurance to

Finally, the hunger strike of the teachers of non-MPO educational institutions came to an end following the prime minister's assurance to address their demands. Subsequently, the teachers went back to their schools to start taking classes after a gap of six days.

There are thousands of non-MPO educational institutions in which nearly 80,000 teachers work. These people have been living a life of misery and hardship. We hope that the government will live up to its promise and start working to implement the teachers' demands.