Education Minister Dipu Moni on Saturday said the decision on how to deal with educational institutions amid the Covid-19 surge will be taken after the ministry's meeting with the National Technical Advisory Committee (NTAC) on Covid-19 on Sunday, reports UNB.
The government formed the 17-member national technical advisory committee with independent experts and government representatives in April, 2020 to recommend measures to tackle the pandemic in the country.
"The government, however, doesn't want to shut the educational institutions now," she said while talking to reporters after attending the silver jubilee programme of Dhaka Imperial College.
Dipu Moni said, "We were apprehending Covid surge during March-April but the cases started rising from early January. So, some sort of adjustment needs to be made in our previous plan."
The minister said the government is emphasising the importance of Covid-19 vaccination campaign so that students could attend classes after receiving jabs.
But there is a concern about the primary-level under-12 students who could not be brought under the campaign yet, said Dipu Moni.
She said students could not attend in-person classes in the long closure of educational institutions due to Covid-19 situation which had hampered the learning process.
To compensate for the learning losses, remedial classes have been arranged, she said, adding, "But the present reluctance of all in maintaining health guidelines might cause more loss in the education sector."
Dipu Moni urged all to maintain health guidelines at social, political and all other programmes considering the future of the students.
Earlier, Health Minister Zajid Maleque said the government has no plan right now to shut educational institutions even though Covid-19 cases keep rising across the world.
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