All will come under pension scheme in July 2025: Quader

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has said the misunderstanding over the Universal Pension Scheme has been removed and all of public and autonomous institutions will come under it on July 1, 2025.

Mentionining that the information of university teachers' joining the pension from July 1 this year is not correct, he said rather they will come under it on July 1 next year.

Quader, also Awami League General Secretary, said this while briefing reporters at AL president's Dhanmondi office in Dhaka on Saturday afternoon.

Earlier today, a 13-member team of the public university teachers, who are observing all-out work abstention programme demanding the cancellation of the Universal Pension Scheme ‘Prottoy’, held a meeting with Obaidul Quader.

Tthe teachers, officials and employees of all public universities have been observing all-out work abstention programme since July 1 demanding three-point demand, including the cancellation of the Universal Pension Scheme ‘Prottoy’.

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