City Reporter: This time the temporary teachers of secondary schools run by Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) have demanded to make their jobs permanent. They held a sit-in program yesterday afternoon in front of the temporary office of Tiger Pass CCC to demand their demands. Later, CCC presented the memorandum to the administrator. It has 13 points of demand.
In the memorandum, the teachers claimed that they were appointed as per the rules. Since appointment, they (236 teachers) are working on fixed salary (total 17 thousand 510 taka). Their families are dependent on low wages. Nowadays, with rising commodity prices and rising costs of living, it has become difficult to make a living on this meager salary. So they have to live a subhuman life. As most of the teachers have passed the official age limit, there is no opportunity to join any new workplace.
In the memorandum, in accordance with the memorandum of the Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Education, and Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development, and Cooperatives of 1984, teachers working in secondary schools in all educational institutions included in the city corporation or municipality are demanded to be given the same salary structure and all facilities as the permanent teachers of government schools.
The teachers said that in view of the demand, the CCC administrator assured to issue an office order within a week to remove the overall pay disparity of secondary school teachers from 3rd grade to 2nd grade. At the same time, he assured to take visible initiative for the permanentization of all temporary teachers through the Ministry within the month of October.
CCC Chief Executive Officer Sheikh Muhammad Tauhidul Islam, Secretary Mohammad Ashraful Amin, Chief Education Officer Mohammad Saiful Islam, Education Officer Rasheda Begum, CCC Teachers Association President Aktar Hoshain, and General Secretary M Maksudul Islam were present during the presentation of the memorandum.
It is to be noted that earlier, the temporary lecturers of different colleges in CCC protested to make their jobs permanent.
