The High Court on Monday issued a rule asking authorities concerned to explain in four weeks why assistant teachers of government primary schools across the country shall not be given 10th grade.
A High Court Division bench comprising Justice Md Ashfaqul Islam and Justice Md Shohrowardi passed the order after holding a hearing on a writ petition filed in this regard.
Secretaries of the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education and the Bangladesh Public Service Commission and the related parties have been asked to respond to the rule.
Barrister Syed Syedul Haque Sumon and Advocate Zahirul Islam stood for the writ petitioner while Deputy Attorney General Kazi Mainul Hasan appeared for the state.
On November 10, Md Mahbubur Rahman, an assistant teacher of Joypurhat primary school, filed the writ with the High Court on behalf of 15 teachers from different districts.
In the writ, the petitioner asked for directions from the higher authorities, to give assistant teachers of government primary schools the 10th grade.
