Seventeen teachers at Shashankmala Government Primary School in Chattogram Patiya upazila, have been transferred over the dispute between the teachers and the school management committee.
The Ministry of Primary and Mass Education transferred them, according to an official order signed by Nasreen Sultana, assistant director of the Department of Primary Education.
Upon receiving the order, the transferred teachers joined different schools on Thursday (June 22).
Sources said, there was a long standing dispute between the headmaster Mohammad Harunur Rashid and assistant teacher Umme Habiba Chowdhury of Shashankmala Government Primary School in Patia municipality and the vice-president of the school management committee.
This long standing dispute seriously disrupted the learning environment of the school.
Following the dispute, they were transferred with the approval of the director general of the education department on June 13.
Swapan Kanti Nath, president of Patia Upazila Primary Teachers' Association, said that there is no elected committee in any primary school in Patiya for a year. The school is being managed by an expired committee. As a result, grouping is going on in every school in the upazila, he added.
"Committees in schools need to be reconstituted immediately to bring back the learning environment," president Swapan Kanti said.
