<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;">The High Court (HC)&nbsp; issued a rule on Monday asking authorities concerned to explain in four weeks as to why assistant teachers of government primary schools across the country shall not be given 10th grade.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>A High Court Division bench comprising Justice Md Ashfaqul Islam and Justice Md Suhrawardy passed the order after holding hearing on a writ petition filed in this regard.</div><div><br></div><div>Secretaries of the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education and Public Service Commission and the related parties have been asked to respond to the rule.</div><div><br></div><div>Barrister Syed Syedul Haque Sumon and Advocate Zahirul Islam heard the writ in court. Deputy Attorney General Kazi Mainul Hasan appeared for the state.</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier, on Thursday, November 10, Md Mahbubur Rahman, assistant teacher of Joypurhat Primary School, filed a writ in the High Court on behalf of 15 teachers of different districts.</div><div><br></div><div>In the writ, the petitioner asked for directions from the higher authorities, to give assistant teachers of government primary schools the 10th grade. - BSS</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>