After 10 days of protests, the non-government teachers and employees on the monthly pay order scheme on Tuesday withdraw their protests as the government decided to introduce 15 per cent (minimum Tk聽2,000) of their basic salaries as house rent in two phases.
On Tuesday, the Finance Division issued a letter addressing education ministry approving a 7.5 per cent of basic pay as house rent of MPO teachers and employees from the upcoming November 1 in the context of the limited government budget.
Another 7.5 per cent of basic pay would be introduced from July 1, 2026, it read.
At about 12:30pm the education adviser professor Chowdhury Rafiqul Abrar announced the latest decision of the government at a press conference held at the Bangladesh Secretariat on the day.
Before the press conference a representative team of the teachers and employees, led by MPO-bhukto Shikkha Jatiyakaran Pratyashi Jote member secretary Delawar Hossain Azizi, met with the adviser.
Leaders of the organisation also attended the press conference.
The adviser asked the teachers to return to their classrooms.
Replying to this, Delawar Hossain said that they would return to the classrooms the next day.
They would announce the withdrawal of the protest on the Central Shaheed Minar premises, he added.
Several thousand teachers and employees from different districts, under the banner of MPO-bhukto Shikkha Jatiyakaran Pratyashi Jote, a platform aspiring for nationalisation of MPO educational institutions, started the protest on October 12, pressing for increases in allowances.
Regarding medical allowance, they want Tk聽1,500, which is currently Tk 500.
Regarding festival allowance of employees, they want 75 per cent of their basic pay, which currently 50 per cent.
They also continued sit-in on the Central Shaheed Minar premises in the capital and countrywide work abstention for the ninth consecutive day since October 13.
Earlier on October 19 the Finance Division introduced 5 per cent of basic salaries of the MPO teachers and employees but they had rejected it.
