BANGLADESH NEWS
Last Thursday the law enforcers swooped on the non-government primary schoolteachers as they were staging a peaceful demonstration to press home their demands. They want their jobs to be nationalised.
Unfortunately, the cops acted in a highhanded manner and resorted to baton charge-- a sheer display of brutal power. As reported in the newspapers, one of the teachers later succumbed to his injuries caused by the action of the police.
These ill-fated teachers are bearing the torch of education in the remote areas of this land for a pittance as their monthly salary. Their backs are pushed to the wall and they took to the streets as the last resort. But the cops treated them as if they were a bunch of hooligans.
The bigwigs of the education sector never get tired of talking about the importance of education and the dignity of the teaching profession. Is it all rhetoric or do they really care for the well-being of the teachers?
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