Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina declared the nationalisation of
26,192 non-government primary schools of the country on Wednesday.
Primary and mass education ministry sources said according
to the earlier proposal, 1, 03,845 teachers will be nationalised in three
phases and they will get the same salaries and benefits as those in government
primary schools.
3 stages:
In the first phase, 91,024 teachers of 22,981 MPO-enlisted
schools will be brought under government pay order system from Jan 1 this year.
This will cost the government an extra Tk 1 billion in the 2012-13 fiscal, says
minister Ameen.
The jobs of 9,025 teachers of 2,252 schools that are
permanently or temporary registered with permission to teach as well as
community and NGO run schools will be regularised from July 1 in the second
phase. For which another Tk 3.71 billion will be needed in the next fiscal.
The minister said jobs of 3,796 teachers of 960 schools with
recommendation for teaching permission or waiting to get the same will be
regularised from Jan 1, 2013.
This move will cost the government an additional Tk 6.51 billion in the 2014-15
fiscal.
Nationalisation declaration of the school has come after
long time at a grand rally of teachers at the capital's National
Parade Square.
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman 1st nationalised
36,165 primary schools and 1, 55,023 teachers got the benefit in 1973. Afterward,
1,507 more schools were nationalised at different times.
Nationalising by govt.:
22,981 registered schools added to the MPO list,
388 permanently
And 361 temporarily registered schools,
720 with teaching permission,
653 non-MPO community
And 130 NGO-run schools,
151 schools recommended for teaching permission
And 809 are waiting for the recommendation.
