Babul Akhtar Rana, Naogaon
Three teachers of Chakgauri Zaida Begum Government Primary School in Mahadevpur of Naogaon have lost their jobs due to complications in recruitment. The teachers are working relentlessly hard to save their jobs.
According to school sources, Zaida Begum Private Primary School was established in 2010 in Chakgauri area of the upazila. From the beginning, there were four teachers appointed in that school.
They are Headmaster Kamal Hossain, Assistant Teachers Josna Banu, Ripa Rani and Masuma Zubaida (Munna). Assistant teachers Josna Banu, Ripa Rani and Masuma Zubaida resigned from their jobs in 2013, three years after they were hired due to non-receipt of salary and allowances.
As three posts of assistant teachers became vacant in the school, the school authorities appointed three teachers named Rabiul Islam, Morzina Akhter and Shahjan Ali in 2014. So far, they are working in the school. The school was nationalized on 23 April 2017.
Josna Banu, Ripa Rani and Masuma Zubaida (Munna), who resigned after the school was nationalized, filed a case in the High Court asking why they should not be included in the MPO, claiming that they were legitimate teachers. After a lengthy hearing of the case, the Appellate Division of the High Court declared their appointment valid on March 12 this year and directed the concerned department to assist them in joining the school concerned.
As per the court order, on March 15, three teachers applied to the headmaster to join the school. Meanwhile, three assistant teachers currently working at the school are worried about the news of the three teachers who resigned eight years ago and re-joined the school.
One of them is Rabiul Islam, an assistant teacher. He said that the three teachers who were appointed at the time of establishment did not see any possibility of getting salary-allowance and left their jobs in 2013. The following year, the school authorities hired three people, including me, as assistant teachers.
We have been working sincerely for 7 years without pay. Now that the school has gone public and the teachers are about to enroll in the MPO, they are back again. Where do we go now?
Kamal Hossain, the headmaster of the school, said the three teachers had applied to me in March to join the school following a court order. The school was closed due to corona a few days after their application. Since then the matter has remained in that state. Now that the court order has come, they have to be appointed.
