Adviser asks teachers to switch professions if salary not satisfactory

If salary, allowances, promotions are not satisfactory, teachers should switch to other professions, said Adviser to the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education Professor Dr. Bidhan Ranjan Roy Poddar.

Urging teachers not to consider teaching in primary schools only in terms of monetary value, he said: "We are getting many good teachers in the primary education sector. They are being trained well. There are various government initiatives for them. But it is sad but true that we are not getting the results in the classrooms."

The adviser said these things at a view-exchange meeting while visiting the Primary Teachers Training Institute in Chittagong city on Sunday (January 26). Earlier, he spoke at a discussion meeting titled 'Things to be done for the development of primary education' with field administration officials in the meeting room of the Circuit House.

Addressing the teachers, he said: "I regret coming into teaching. I have to think about whether I am cheating in my profession, whether I am cheating in class. But no great work is done by cheating. The importance of the post of primary school teacher is much greater. It will not be judged by the salary. Because, a child gets the primary lesson of becoming a human being from the primary school teacher."

The program, chaired by Chittagong Divisional Commissioner Dr. Md. Ziauddin, was addressed by Secretary of the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education Abu Taher Md. Masud Rana, Director General of the Department of Primary Education Dr. Md. Abdul Hakim, Divisional Director Ataur Rahman, among others.