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Progress of compulsory pry education programme in Pabna hampered

From Ranesh Maitra
PABNA Feb 4: Despite use of various methods to ensure imparting of primary education for all the children upto ten vears of age, shortage of teachers and officers in different levels have seriously affected primary education in Pabna district. This has been hampering the progress of implementation of compulsory primary education scheme.
According to official sources, three posts out of nine thana education officers and five out of 39 Assistant Thana Education officers were lying vacant in the district.
Besides, in the government primary schools. 29 posts of Headmasters and 86 posts of Assistant teachers were also lying vacant.
The sanctioned posts of Headmasters are 644 and those of assistant teachers are 2.839 in this district and of them/ there are 615 Headmasters and Headmistresses and 2.753 assistant teachers are now working in 664 government primary schools at present.
In addition to 664 government primary schools, there are also 333 registered non-government and 113 unregistered non-goyernment primary schools in the dis-
trict.
It is gathered from Habibur Rahman Khondker, District Primary Education Officer. Pabna. that 21 government primary schools under Bharara union of Pabna sadar thana. 19 schools of Foiljana union under Chat-moliar thana, nine schools of Tantibandha union under Su-janagar thana: 20 primary schools of Nag Demra union under Santhia thana: six primary schools of Luxmikunda union under Ishurdi thana; eight primary schools of Dhalarchar union under Bera thana; 14 primary schools of Bri Lahiribari union under Faridpur thana; 14 primary schools of Chandbha union under Atgharia thana and 14 government primary schools of Dilpashar union under Bhangoora thana were brought under the "food for education" in the first phase of the scheme in Pabna district.
According to the said DPEO due to the implementation of the said scheme. 2.377 families of Pabna sadar thana. 1.713 families of Chatmohar thana. 978 families of Sujangar thana. 2,155 families of Santhiha thana. 1.078 families of Ishurdi thana. 1.662 families of Pera thana. 1.861 families of
Faridpur thana. 2.098 families of Atgharia thana and 1.525 families of Bhangoora. in the respective uniops of the concerned thanas (as has already been mentioned) have been benefitted and the total number of students having been benefitted under the said scheme, throughout the district stands at 18,366 of J 25 schools.
The District Primary Education Officer total The Daily Star that according to a survey conducted by them there were 3.86.437 children throughout Pabna district in 1994 and out of them, a total of 3.31.055 boys and girls were admitted who the primary schools, thus, the percentage of a children admitted stands in total at 88 0er tent. But the percentage of attendance according to the survey report was 72.5 while the percentage of drop-outs has been officially estimated at 51.76 per cent annually.
When asked regarding the steps taken by them to remove or reduce such an alarming number of drop-out of students in the primary schools. Habibur Rahman Khondker. DPEO. stated that the following steps were being taken by them.
a) Imparting training to the union and ward coinmit-
tees formed under the compulsory free primary education scheme with regard to their responsibilities in this regard.
b) imparting training tc the chairman of school managing committees and teachers-cum-guardian committees for making them conscious and dutiful;
c) Holding mass-contact meetings with the guardians and "Mothers' Rallies' and “courtyard meeting for making them aware of the need of completion of primary education for their children;
d) For making irregular students conscious of continuing their studies till class V. students' brigades are being formed;
e) Cub-teams are being formed comprising the students and more sports and other extra-academic activities are being organised.
0 imams of Mosques are being imparted training so that they could encourage guardians to send their wards regularly with schools.
g) For making the families economically self-reliant or solvent, motivational programmes for the students, on competitive basis, has been introduced for encouraging gardening, cultivation of vegetables. poultry farming etc.