The primary and mass education ministry has instructed the primary education directorate to upgrade the position of 45 headteachers to 10th grade of the national pay scale.
A notification of the ministry signed by its joint secretary Rebeka Sultana on Monday gave this instruction following a judgment of the appellate division of the Supreme Court.
According to the notification, the primary and mass education ministry has recently sent a letter to the finance ministry to give consent to upgrade the scale of those 45 headteachers where the government need additional allocation of Tk 23,69,140.
These 45 headteachers filed a writ petition before the High Court in 2018 for upgrading their posts to 10th grade from 11th grade of the pay scale.
The decision of upgrading the position of the headteachers will be applicable only for the writ petitioners, the notification added.