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City to get 17 new schools, colleges

Staff Correspondent
The government project to build 17 new schools and colleges in the capital starts today with the laying of foundation stone of two institutions.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina around 3:30pm will lay the foundation stone of Sheikh Russel Government High School and Begum Sheikh Fazilatun Nesa Mujib Government College in Hazaribagh.
The Tk 435-crore government-funded project was taken up last year to meet the
demand for standard educational institutions in the city. Under the project, 11 secondary schools and six colleges will be constructed.
Currently, the city has only 24 state-run secondary schools and 11 colleges. And half of the 41 police stations in Dhaka Metropolitan City do not have any public school and college.
Education ministry officials said the public institutions are not enough to
accommodate the everincreasingcity students.
Every year, students in their thousands compete for admission against a limited number of seats in these institutions.
The project is expected to end in June 2014. The government has already acquired land for nine schools and six colleges, and the land acquisition process for the remaining ones is going on, said the ministry officials.
"This project will create the opportunity for city students to study in standard educational institutions since government institutions are considered standard ones," Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid toldThe Daily Star yesterday.
Dhaka city is expanding day by day with new localities emerging, but the number of quality educational institutions did not increase, he added.
Each institution under the project will have a four-storey academic building, 10 classrooms of 50-student capacity, laboratory, library, one room for headmaster or principal, one for assistant headmaster or vice principal, an office room, separate common rooms for boys and girls, and an auditorium.
Besides, every institution will have a Shaheed Minar.
The schools and colleges will run double shifts, and the government will provide all necessary furniture, books, computers, digital boards, and sports items.
At the foundation-laying ceremony, the education minister, lawmaker Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh and Education Secretary Kamal Abdul Naser Chowdhury will be present.