Teachers and employees of 35 public universities kept all academic, administrative and other activities shut for third consecutive days on Wednesday.
They continued non-cooperation with these educational institutions, students, their academic and officials activities through a work abstention programme starring from Last Monday.
In such circumstances, students have been facing untold sufferings due to non-cooperation from the teachers and employees.
The students are not being able to continue library work or to solve their official and administrative complicacies.
Teachers and employees of 35 public universities have been continuing the programme under the banner of Federation of Bangladesh University Teachers’ Association demanding their exclusion from Universal Pension Scheme (UPS).
As part of the movement, the federation called for a boycott of classes, examinations and administrative work a day before the start of the implementation of ‘Prattay’, a new pension scheme introduced by the National Pension Authority.
The federation announced the programme to press home their demand at a press conference held at the main gate of Arts Faculty of Dhaka University on June 30. Besides, the Dhaka University Teachers’ Association (DUTA) issued a notice on Sunday, addressing the teachers of the university. Classes and exams including regular, evening programmes, professional programmes, online and offline classes and the administrative activities remained suspended at all public universities, including Dhaka University, Chittagong University, Rajshahi University, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Jagannath Univeristy, Jahangirnagar University and Khulna University.
Chairman offices, hall provost offices, research centres, institutes, central library, dean offices, computer labs and seminars also remain shut.
Dhaka University Officers-employees, under the banner Officers-employees Oikya Parishad, called a strike and protest programme demanding cancellation of ‘discriminatory’ notification related to Universal Pension (Prattoy Scheme). Officers and employees of
other public universities also went on strike. The Universal Pension Scheme started its journey on August 17, 2023 with four schemes: Prabashi, Pragati, Suraksha, and Equality.
Later, a new scheme, the Pratyay scheme, was introduced for the officers and employees of all autonomous and state-owned organisations.
