Around 40 organisations of teachers and employees under four platforms are on strike and they have been holding rallies, forming human chains and bringing out processions in support for their demands.

Cent per cent basic salary from the government coffer is their common demand.

Now they get 90 percent basic salary from the public coffers.

All the teachers' organisations, both pro-Awami League and pro-BNP, yesterday condemned the police action on agitating teachers and demanded punishment for the policemen responsible.

Shikkhak Karmachari Oikya Jote, a platform of eight pro-BNP organisations, yesterday held a press conference at Mohammadpur Central University College in the capital where leaders declared stern programmes for the coming days.

The Jote will form a human chain at the city's Muktangon at 11:00am today and hold a representatives rally at the Central Shaheed Minar on July 22 where they will declare their next course of action.

Another faction of Oikya Jote led by Selim Bhuiyan held a divisional grand rally in Bogra.

Several hundred teachers and employees gathered at the Central High School in Bogra yesterday where leaders of the Jote vowed to continue their strike until their demands were met.

Teachers and employees under the banner of National Front of Teachers and Employees (NFTE), a pro-Awami League platform of 11 teachers' and employees' organisations, yesterday brought out procession holding red-flags at the upazila towns across the country protesting the police action on teachers' procession.

NFTE will lay siege to the upazila nirbahi officer's (UNO) offices today.

Bangladesh Shikkhak-Karmachari Oikya Parishad, another platform of eight Awami League backed teachers' and employees' organisations, held a protest rally at the Muktangon yesterday protesting the police action on teachers.