Pay Buet senior teachers justly
The Teachers' Association of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet) yesterday held a sit-in, demanding pensions for the senior teachers on the basis of the latest national pay scale.
They held the protest in front of the Academic Council Bhaban from 12:00pm to 1:30pm.
The teachers said in a press release that the Public University Teachers (Retirement) (Special Rules) Act-2012 extended the retirement age of all public university teachers from 60 to 65 years.
They said the Buet ordinance in 1961 already allowed its teachers to extend their service in phases up to 65 years after they reached age 60. Many teachers used to receive that extension and enjoy regular salaries and facilities, they said.
But, in August last year, the University Grants Commission (UGC) sent a list of 20 teachers, who had extended their services under the Buet ordinance, saying the 2012 act will not apply to the teachers who reached age 60 before July 10, 2012 and those teachers have to retire at 60, said the release.
Recently, the university administration is unjustly refraining from giving the teachers pensions and other allowances they deserve, it said.
Prof Farida Nilufar, president of the association, said that the syndicate decided that the senior teachers deserved pensions based on the pay scale approved in 2015, but the administration was not paying them accordingly.
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