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Tk 16 cr more will be needed to raise primary teachers' grants

Bx Re az Ahmad
Hr next uinual budget anil liave to make |>rovislon for an additional sum of Taka 16 crore to pay government sup port grants to 44.000 teachers of 11.000 registered non gov ernmant pnmary schools and tbtadai primary madrassahs.
The government will have to allocate Taka 55 crore tor the purpose of paying the teachers the annual grams paid In monthly instalments In 1994-95 the sum required under this head was only Taka 39 crore 4 lakh and 56 thousand. according to competent sources in tlx education sec tor
The giwernmeni recently decided to increase the cash benefit for the teachers of registered nongovernment primary schools and tbtadai madrassahs The money will be paid into the personal accounts of die teachers through banks
Since 1991 a maximum of four teachers from each of the 11,000 registered non-gov eminent primary sthoot* and ibtadm madrassahs to the
country were mulled to re cen< a monthly gram of Taka 5tw> each as special relief
In the lace of continued agi ration by the teachers, the government last February agreed to enhance the grant amount by categorizing the schools and madrasaahs according to the length of their registration wuh effect from January tM* |MM Henae. the teachers of schools and niadrassahs registered five years or more ago will get Taka 745 each as grant while the teachers of institutions regia tered between two and four rears ago will get Taka 651 The teachers ol institutions whose registration has been done less than two years ago will get only Taka 525 per month-
Meanwhile the Compulsory Primary Education (CPE) unit of the Primary and Mass Education Division has re cently channelled Taka 21 crore 50 lakh to the a< counts of the teachers as arrear grants lor die mouths of January April this year in 435 out of
the 473 Ilianas in the country through the branches ol four designated banks Earlier. Taka 13 crore 20 lakh was paid in this regard during the first six months of the current fiscal at the old rate of Taka 500 per month.
When asked an official concerned told The Daily Star that teachers of the remaining 38 thanas were yet to receive their arrears because neces sary information about their bank accounts had not been forwarded to the CPE unit in time
UnUi December last year the grant fund used to be channelled through treasury memos drawn by the Thana Education Officers (TEOs). who later distributed the money among the teachers. But. following repeated com plaints of malpractice in that procedure the government has decided to channel the money directly to the eligible teachers through ihetr bank accounts
The four designated banks for the five divisions are; Dliaka—Agranl Bank. Rajshahi— Sonali Bank. Chittagong—Ja nata Bank. Khulna and Bartsal Rupali Bank.
In places where there are no branches of tlie prescribed banks, the teachers have been advised to open accounts with the Sonali Bank, which has a nation wide network.