Teachers of nationalised primary schools on Monday threatened to announce tougher programmes if their eight-point demand, including preparing a gradation/promotion list taking into consideration 50 per cent of the service life, is not met by June 30 next. Convener of the Nationalised Primary School Teachers’ Grand Alliance Mohammad Aminul Islam Chowdhury came up with announcement at a press conference at the Jatiya Press Club.

He thanked Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for nationalising 26,193 non-government primary schools in 2013. Aminul alleged that an evil effort is on to deprive the head teachers and assistant teachers of the nationalised primary schools of financial facilities, including time scale, through the misinterpretation of sub-section 1 of section 9 of SRO-315, 2013, harassing them.

“We’ll submit a memorandum to the Prime Minister through all deputy commissioners on June 12 and hold a grand rally at the Central Shaheed Minar in the capital on June 30 if our demands are not met by then,” he said.