Overview
- The Ministry of Primary and Mass Education announced revised recruitment rules that drop the assistant-teacher posts for music and physical education.
- Ministry official Masud Akhtar Khan said the amendment now includes only two categories of assistant teachers, confirming music and PE are excluded.
- Hefazat-e Islam, Islami Andolon Bangladesh, Jamaat-e-Islami and Khelafat factions had denounced the plan as un-Islamic and warned of street protests.
- Islami Andolon chief Syed Rezaul Karim threatened mobilisations if music teachers were appointed, claiming such hires would harm children’s character.
- Officials declined to link the change to pressure, as reporting situates it within a broader pattern of the interim government retreating on contested reforms.