Dhaka, Apr 3 (UNB) - Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday reminded the public servants that they have to be sincere in performing their duties as their salaries and other allowances come from taxpayers’ money.

“We’re getting our salaries and allowances from taxpayer’s money, so we have to be careful while discharging our duties,” she said when a delegation of BCS Education Association, led by its President Professor Fahima Khatun, met her at the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO).

The Prime Minister said the government is actively considering constituting a separate Service Commission to ensure the appropriate status of teachers in society.

She asked the teachers to stay in their workplaces instead of trying to have posted in Dhaka.

Hasina said a separate pay commission will be formed for the teachers to enhance their salaries and other benefits. In this context, she mentioned that the government already provided time-scale for all the teachers.

Press Secretary to the Prime Minister Abul Kalam Azad briefed reporters after the meeting.

During the meeting, Sheikh Hasina said her government attaches top priority to education giving highest budgetary allocation for the sector.

She said the government is implementing various programmes for the development of education as it is the primary prerequisite to poverty alleviation.

The government is providing free textbooks up to secondary level and introduced locally-managed school feeding programme to check dropout.

Besides, an Education Assistant Trust Fund with initial money of 1000 crore taka has been formed to help the poor and meritorious students to continue their study up to degree level.

Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister Sheikh M Wahid Uz Zaman, PMO Secretary Molla Waheeduzzaman and Education Secretary Dr Kamal Abdul Naser Chowdhury were present.