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Govt to relax rules for primary teacher recruitment in CHT

Staff Correspondent
The government will relax the minimum educational requirement for recruitment of primary school teachers in three Chittagong hill districts to solve the shortage of teachers in the area.
Primary and Mass Education Adviser Rasheda K Choudhury told a discussion yesterday that the step was being taken since eligible candidates are hard to find in the three hill districts of Bandarban, Khagrachhari and Rangamati.
Manusher Jonno Foundation
organised the views exchanging meeting on 'Going to School: Challenges in Chittagong Hill Tracts’ at the Cirdap auditorium in the city yesterday where the results of a recent survey were also presented.
"The notification will be issued very soon,” Rasheda told the meeting, adding that priority was being given to recruit only indigenous teachers, especially for lower classes, to reduce the dropout rate.
At present, the minimum educational requirement for the post of teachers is graduation level for male candidates and SSC for females.
The adviser also said that 10 residential schools will be set up in the three hill districts by the end of the current year to increase access to primary education for all ethnic children.
The survey revealed that around 42 per cent students in the area leave school for poverty. 20 per cent for linguistic problems ana 12 per cent for poor road communication.
Barrister Dcvashish Roy, special assistant to the chief adviser on Chittagong Hill Tract Affairs, said many schools don't have enough teachers due to the complicated process of recruitment
"The drop out rate cannot be reduced without expanding the system to impart lessons in indigenous languages,” he said.
Shaheen Anam, executive director of Manusher Jonno Foundation, said while poverty is the main reason behind the high dropout rate, indigenous children should be taught in their own language in the first phase of primary education, and then Sauually be taught other languages « Bangla and English.
"This will help reduce the dropout rate," she said while moderating the discussion.
Among others, Zabarang Executive Director Mathura Tripura. Manusher Jonno Foundation Director Shamim Imam. Dhaka University professors Sadeka 1 lalim and Mejbah Kamal and Associate Professor Dr Shourav Sikdcr took part in the discussion.