Teachers and employees of MPO-enlisted educational institutions, who are on a hunger strike, yesterday announced to refrain from holding classes for a day in all their secondary and higher secondary institutions on Sunday.
They will not participate in any official activities of the institutions and conduct any classes, they said on the fifth day of their strike yesterday, demanding nationalisation of all the institutions enjoying the government's monthly pay order (MPO) facilities.
The decisions were taken at a meeting of the Besarkari Shikhkha Jatiyakaran Liaison Forum, the platform of six organisations of teachers and employees leading the movement.
"We will boycott classes for one day. We urge all the teachers of the institutions to participate in the hunger strike on January 21," said GM Shawon, joint convener of the forum.
He said they took the decision as they did not get any response from the prime minister with regard to their demand.
Several hundred teachers began the indefinite hunger strike at Jatiya Press Club on January 15 pressing home their demand. Earlier, they staged a sit-in protest for five days since January10. Yesterday, a total of 75 teachers fell sick while at least 20 of them were hospitalised.
