Teachers of public universities across the country including Dhaka University will go on indefinite work abstention demanding their exclusion from the universal pension scheme, terming it ‘discriminatory’.
The Federation of Bangladesh University Teachers’ Association made the announcement at a press conference at the main gate of Arts Faculty of Dhaka University on Saturday noon.
Dhaka University Teachers Association(DUTA) issued a notice signed by the DUTA president and GS addressing the teachers of the university.
“With your immense support and mandate, the Teachers’ Association has formulated the outline of this all-out movement. Our movement is a movement to protect the honor and dignity of the teachers’ society of the university. Movement against interference in the autonomy of Dhaka University,” the notice reads.
“This all-out strike will continue until the demands of exclusion of university teachers from the discriminatory and degrading pension scheme, introduction of individual pay scale for teachers, inclusion of university teachers in the promised ‘super grade’ are met,” it added.
Classes and exams including regular, evening program, professional programs, online classes and offline classes; all the academic and administrative activities will remain suspended. Chairman offices, hall provost offices, research centres, institutes, central library, dean offices, computer labs and seminars will remain shut, it said.
The teachers were advised not to attend any selection board meeting and question collaboration meeting, academic committee meetings.
On the other hand, the students are also preparing to start a movement against the recently reestablished quota system in government jobs.
Alongside this, DU (Dhaka University) Officers-employees, under the banner Officers-employees Oikya Parishad, called strike and protest programme demanding cancellation of discriminatory notification related to Universal Pension (Prattoy Scheme).
