Dhaka, Oct. 19 -- MPO-registered teachers and staff campaigning for a 20 percent basic salary increase, higher house rent allowances, and the nationalisation of all private educational institutions have been prevented from carrying out a "Hunger March" by law-enforcing agencies.

On Sunday, as the march moved towards the education ministry, they were stopped at the High Court's Mazaar gate. There, they faced police and Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel in a tense standoff before returning to the Central Shaheed Minar for their sit-in programme around 4:45pm.

Earlier, at 3:30pm, teachers and staff took out a march towards the ministry from Shaheed Minar.

Under the banner of the MPO Teachers and Staff Nationalisation Alliance, the p...