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Grant assures more aid
The Executive Director of the United Nations Children s Fund (UNICEF) James P Grant Thursday assured increased assistance of his organisation to Bangladesh, saying that Bangladesh was on the high priority consideration of UNICEF, reports BSS.
The assurance came when the UNICEF Executive Director called on Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia at her office here.
They discussed various matters, relating to primary education, non-formal educatton. childcare and the success of immunization programme tn Bangladesh.
The UNICEF Executive Director congratulated Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zta and her government for the laudable success in some of the major areas of development Including child healthcare and education and for making education free for girls upto class eight tn the rural areas and giving emphasis on involving women tn national development programme.
Grant requested the Prime Minister to initiate a mecha nism for monitoring the enrollment of children and their drop-outs from schools and Involve more and more community leaders and social workers for the success of healthcare and primary education programmes. Grant requested the Prime Minister to Include an agenda on children for the next SAARC summit to be held In Dhaka late this year so that the children of South Asia could get the benefit of proper education and healthcare.
Welcoming the UNICEF Chief Begum Zia said that what ever Grant had mentioned were already In the development programmes for socioeconomic uplift and also In the election manifesto of BNP.
The Prime Minister said Bangladesh, at Its present march Its forwards systematic progress, would need more and more support from the UNICEF to achieve desired results.
The UNICEF Executive Director while assuring in creased assistance, expressed hls belief that Bangladesh would become successful in Its development efforts.
He suggested monthly monitoring of the progress on the primary education sector at the thana and district level.
The Prime Minister mentioned that there should be more people In the staff of UNICEF from Bangladesh so that they could also contribute to the development programmes of the UNICEF.
Grant agreed to this proposal-
Principal Secretary of Prime Minister Syed Hasan Ahmed and ERD Secretary Enam Ahmed Chowdhury and country representatives of UNICEF in Dhaka Cole P Dodge were present in the occasion.