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Child Parliament urges Saifur to consider its proposal

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Child Parliament Bangladesh, a mock parliament of children, yesterday urged Finance Minister M Saifur Rahman to consider its recommendations before passing the budget for FY 2005-06.
The call came from a press conference of the mock parliamentarians at the Jatiya Press Club yesterday.
Providing free textbooks to students up to class-IX, and computer and Internet facilities to all primary and secondary schools and madrasas figure prominently in the recommendations first mooted at a mock session of the child parliament on April 17 this year.
The child parliamentarians had forwarded those proposals to the finance minister, education minister, health minister, and to the chairmen of four relevant parliamentary standing committees.
The other recommendations include prohibiting publications of guide books and private coaching, shunning the trend of changing textbooks every year, making separate toilets for girls compulsory at every school, ending maltreatment of students in classrooms, giving stipend to poor boys alongside the girls, ensuring free treatment for physically and mentally challenged children.
"The elders are still reluctant to take heed of what we say. And sometimes even if they listen to us, they do not translate those words into action," said a child parliament member, speaking at the press conference.
Finance Minister M Saifur Rahman in the mock parliament's
budget session on June 17, last year assured the miniparliamentarians of considering their views in the next budget to protect child rights.
If a set of recommendations on child rights is sent to the government through the Child Parliament two months before the next budget, the government will consider the proposals, he said, taking a question from Laboni Siddique, a child parliament member from Tangail.
Sujon Mahmud, another young parliamentarian from Munshiganj, at yesterday's press conference said, "We know that government every year allocates fund for us. But
we don't know where does that money go."
The press conference was organised with assistance of Save the Children-Australia, and USAID.
Jasmin Akhter Lima, Munia Zaman Laboni, Tanvir Ahmed Russel, Ria Rani Dev, Razia Sultana Sathi, and Asma Khatun were among the mock parliamentarians present at the conference.
Besides, Zahidul Hasan Russel and Laboni Siddiqui, two advisors to the children's parliament, attended the conference.
Child parliament has a total of 128 mock parliamentarians, two for each of the 64 districts. They are elected for two years.