HC for paying salary to pry school headmasters under grade-10

Staff Correspondent: The High Court (HC) on Monday asked the government to provide salary and other benefits to primary school headmasters under grade-10 of the national pay scale.

An HC division bench comprising Justice Naima Haider and Justice Khizir Ahmed Choudhury passed the order, declaring “absolute” a rule issued earlier in this regard.

The court asked the government to implement it with retrospective effective from March 9, 2014.

All trained and untrained teachers will avail of the same opportunity, it said.

Advocate Salauddin Dolon who stood for the petitioner said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina elevated the job of headmasters to class-II on March 9, 2014 and the Primary and Mass Education Ministry issued a gazette notification on the same day over it.

The Education Ministry provides salary to the headmasters of primary schools under grade-11 (those trained) and grade-12 (untrained) although it gives salary to other class-II employees under garade-10.

Later, 45 teachers, including Rias Pervez, president of Bangladesh Govt Primary Headmasters’ Association, filed a writ with the High Court challenging the legality of the government decision.


risingbd/Dhaka/Feb 25, 2019/Mahidi/AI