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.
