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Teachers clash with cops

30 injured; clash causes traffic mess

Staff Correspondent
At least 30 people including policemen were injured in clashes between law enforcers and teachers of non-MPO educational institutions in front of Jatiya Press Club in the capital yesterday.
Following the confrontation, teachers and employees of non-MPO schools, colleges, madrasas and vocational institutions declared a fast-unto-death programme from
today to press home the demand for inclusion of their educational institutions in the Monthly Payment Order (MPO) system.
The clashes erupted around 12:45pm when several hundred teachers reached Gate-5 of Bangladesh Secretariat with a rally to lay siege to the ministries of finance and education as per their scheduled programme.
As police and Rab personnel intercepted the rally a scuffle broke out between the two parties. At one stage, police sprayed liquid teargas and the teachers in retaliation pelted the law enforcers with brick chips, witnesses said.
The law enforcers also used truncheons, teargas and rubber bullets to disperse the agitators. Chases and counterchases took place during that time.
Meanwhile, students under the banner “BCS in Health Technology (Dental) Students'Association" also clashed with police in front of Jatiya Press Club in the afternoon.
They tried to lay siege on the health ministry to press home their five-point demand, including renaming of their course as Bachelor of Dentistry or BSC in Dentistry.
The clash left at least 20 people injured. The students' association would hold a sit-in in front of the Jatiya Press Club on Saturday protesting police action.
The traffic system of the capital virtually fell apart due to the clashes and a separate rally of primary school teachers at the National Parade Ground. Thousands of vehicles had to remain stranded in gridlocks for hours, inflicting untold suffering on city dwellers.
More than one lakh teachers of nongovernment primary schools had attended the rally to witness the announcement by the prime minister about their jobs being nationalised. They came at the parade ground by several hundred buses, which were parked on both sides of Rokeya Sarani.
Besides, police barred entry to Shishu Mela inter-section and restricted buses on Khamarbari junction creating a massive gridlock on Rokeya Sarani and adjoining streets throughout the day.
Long tailbacks on Rokeya Sarani mostly put the school- and officegoers in misery.
About the policeteachers clash in front of Jatiya Press Club, Syed Nurul Islam, deputy commissioner of DMP Ramna Division, said police had shown the highest tolerance until the agitators swooped on law enforcers prompting them to retaliate.
The DC alleged that activists of Jamaat-e-Islami might have been in the crowd and had launched the attack on police to benefit politically.