Move to Amend Absorption Rules
Govt college teachers' strike from tomorrow
Staff Correspondent
Teachers of the government colleges under the banner of Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) General Education Association will go for an indefinite work abstention at all government colleges, Teachers Training Colleges (TTC) and in all Alia madrasas across the country from tomorrow. They will refrain from work demanding steps to stop the move to amend the Absorption Rules 2000. They announced their programme at a press conference at Dhaka Reporters Unity (DRU) in the city. Addressing the press conference, the speakers said they did not get any kind of assurance from the government despite repeated appeal regarding the Absorption Rules. A Statutory Regulation Order (SRO) on the rules would be issued any time, they added. The association members alleged that the teachers, who were recruited through the Public Service Commission (PSC), would be deprived if the absorption rules were amended. The government has made some non-government colleges the government universities where all the teachers in those non-government institutions were adopted as the government teachers. Most of the adopted teachers will be seniors to the teachers who were recruited through PSC if the amendment goes through, said Masum Rabbani Khan, secretary general of the Association. "Though we have been demanding for not making any government college a university, the government is planning to make Karmichel College a university", he said. The association members strongly protested the move and demanded immediate cancellation of the decision. Masum also urged the government to give promotion to the deserving lecturers as their promotions have been held up for the last 16 months. Association President Prof Iftekhar Ahmed Khan, Vice President Fahima Khatun, International Secretary Mahbub Alam, Information Secretary Morshedul Hasan and Publicity Secretary Mahbub Sarfaraj Khan Nilim were present at the conference.
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