They made the demand at a meeting with the Awami League's Education and Human Resource Development Secretary at the party office at Dhanmondi in the city.

The teachers said the BNP-Jamaat alliance government has established a reign of terror in the education sector through sacking and transferring them on narrow political interests.

They also demanded immediate rehabilitation of those teachers who were sacked and stopping harassment of other teachers.

They also protested politicisation of the education sector by the alliance government.

The meeting demanded implementation of the policy taken during the AL regime to upgrade the job of the teacher as first class and set up a separate directorate for secondary education.

The teachers also demanded cancellation of 50 percent direct appointment by the government in the post of head master at government high schools.

Expressing solidarity with the teachers' demand, Nurul Islam Nahid said the AL is working to establish a modern science-based education in the country.

Shikkhak-Karmochari Parishad Convenor MA Awal Siddiqui presided over the meeting.