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Govt to bring 7.2 lakh more children to schools

BSS, Dhaka
The government has a plan to bring 7.2 lakh more children, including a large number of dropouts, to schools in 148 most disadvantaged and remote upazilas, covering roughly one-third of the country, through implementing a project with the support of the World Bank (WB).
Linder the programme, the government has established more than 3,100 new learning centres in 85 new upazilas this year which is popularly known as Ananda Schools under the second Reaching out-of-School Children (ROSC II) project, official sources said.
Even these learning centres are enrolling about 96,000 out-of-school disadvantaged children. The ROSC II is also supporting about 1.37 lakh children to complete their primary education cycle in more than 5,900 learning centres in 85 upazilas.
About the project, Shymal Kanti Gosh, director general of the Department of Primary Education, told the news agency that “ROSCII is being implemented in the upazilas with high poverty incidence, low enrolment and low completion rates."
He said the children enrolled in the Ananda Schools, aged 8-14, had missed out schooling at the right age or had been compelled to drop out, mainly because of poverty.
More than half of these children are girls. The project will also help them move on to secondary education, Gosh added.
In keeping with its emphasis to enhance quality of education for disadvantaged children, ROSC II undertook a major teacher-
training programme in collaboration with the Institute of Education and Research of Dhaka University and the Institute of Educational Development of Brae University.
Sixty-three training coordinators (TCs) and 39 training resource persons (TRPs) have been trained and teaching aids have been developed. These TCs and TRPs are now providing training to the teachers of all currently running Ananda Schools.
Besides, an elaborate system to monitor all field level activities in the remote and disadvantaged areas has been developed, incorporating information and communication technologies.
ROSC II is also piloting interventions like early grade reading, learning centres in selected urban slums, education for domestic workers, and a pre-vocational skills training scheme for Ananda School graduates.
A trust fund from USAID, executed by the WB, is assist-ing the development of these pilots to be implemented through ROSC II. The WB is providing US $ 130 million for the project. The financing is in the form of a zero interest credit from the International Development Association with 40 years to maturity and a 10-year grace period, including a service charge on disbursed funds of 0.75 percent.