Education Minister Dr. A N M Ehsanul Haque Milon said MPO-enlisted teachers and employees at private educational institutions will be included in the new pay scale and receive salaries and allowances accordingly. He made the announcement in a post on his verified Facebook page on Tuesday, following cabinet approval of the National Pay Scale 2026 on Monday afternoon.

After the cabinet meeting, Cabinet Secretary Nasimul Ghani had said no decision had yet been made on including MPO-enlisted teachers and staff in the new scale. The MPO-Enlisted Education Nationalisation Aspirants Alliance, representing more than 625,000 teachers and employees, immediately expressed anger and demanded a notification formally including them in the pay scale.

MPO-enlisted personnel receive the main portion of their salary and some allowances from the government each month. BANBEIS data list 398,000 under secondary and higher education, nearly 175,000 under madrasa education and more than 23,000 under technical education. Their house-rent allowance was recently raised to 15 percent of basic pay in two stages, with the final 7.5 percent effective from July 1 this year.