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Ensure quality education to build digital Bangladesh

Education minister tells workshop

BSS, Dhaka
Education Minister Nurul Islam Naheed yesterday said the government is giving priority to ensure quality education to make it more useful.
"We need quality teachers for increasing quality of education.'' he told an inaugural session of a workshop on 'Proxy Means Testing Based Stipend and TYiition' under the Secondary
Education Quality and Access Enhancement Project (SEQAEP) at the LGED Bhaban in the city.
The Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education and the Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) jointly organised workshop. Director General of the DSHE Prof Noman Ur Rashid addressed the inaugural session as the special guest with LGED Chief Engineer Md Wahidur Rahman in the chair.
SEQAEP Project Director Md Badiul Alam and Operation Adviser of the World Bank Tahseen Sayed Khan also spoke at the function.
Naheed said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has declared the 'Change for Charter for building a digital Bangladesh by2121.
Describing education as the main tool for building digital Bangladesh, he said, "We have to ensure education for all particularly quality education for bringing a qualitative change to all spheres of society.
Terming poverty a main obstacle to providing education for all, Naheed said. "We could not remove poverty from the country overnight. So. we have to move ahead by facing the problem of poverty."
Referring to the 48 percent dropout at the primary school level and 42 percent at the secondary level, he said poverty is one of the main reasons for this high dropout rate in the country.
In this context, he said the government is seriously thinking on the issue of pov erty.
He said, "We have identified that major parts of the dropout students between Class-DC to Class-X and Class-VI to Class-VII have been forced to leave their schools as they could not buy their
books."
Considering the situation, Naheed said the government has decided to provide books free of cost to all students along with the primary level from the next year to encourage students of poor families to continue their studies.
He said, "We have to publish 21 crore books by this year for implementing the decision of the government."
He said publishing of 21 crore books by this year is a huge task but they are to overcome the challenges for ensuring education for all".
Badiul Alam said the government is implementing 'Proxy Means Testing Based Stipend and Tuition' Project under the SEQAEP for providing stipend and tuition for the students of the poor families and low-income groups.
He said initially, the project would be introduced to 121upazilas. Gradually, it would be introduced across the country in phases, he added
He said 18 criteria will be considered for selecting the beneficiaries of the project.