Fourteen more fell sick as the hunger strike for enlistment of teachers into Monthly Payment Order (MPO) entered fifth day on Thursday.
By this, the sick tally due to this protest reached to 85.
From last few days a number of teachers are continuing their demonstration in front of Jatiya Press Club demanding specific pay scheme in several government-recognized schools.
Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid assured them but eventually failed to do.
“We will not withdraw our demonstration unless Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina declares a specific time frame to draw up our solution,” said Imran Bin Solaiman, organising secretary of Non-MPO Shikhya Pratishthan Shikhyak Karmachari Federation.
About 80,000 teachers currently employed in 5,242 government-recognized schools all over Bangladesh are not under a pay scheme. They do not receive any payment, some for well over decades.
These schools cannot able to afford the payments of the teachers.
The government, on the other hand, stopped enlisting the institutions for MPO due to the shortage of fund.