Dhaka, Oct. 20 -- Teachers and employees under the government's monthly pay order (MPO) scheme who are protesting for increased allowances including house rent, will stage a protest march in Dhaka's Shahbagh on Tuesday "with black cloth tied over their faces".

It was announced by protest leader Delawar Hossain Azizi, member secretary of the MPO Education Nationalisation Alliance during the sit-in protests at the Central Shaheed Minar around 5:45pm on Monday.

He said, "At 12pm on Tuesday, we will take a position in Shahbagh with black cloth tied over our mouths, protest, and then leave.

"This will be a march; we won't stay there for too long. We will keep in mind the issue of public inconvenience. We want to keep our programmes peaceful...