The interim government has undertaken wide-ranging reforms and development initiatives in the primary education sector to ensure quality education for all children and contribute to sustainable national progress, reports BSS.
The Ministry of Primary and Mass Education has focused on key areas such as infrastructure development, teacher recruitment and training, digitisation of promotion processes, textbook distribution, school feeding, and inclusive education. Significant investment has also been made to improve the overall learning environment in schools.
In the current year, a total of 16,247 additional classrooms, 15,144 wash blocks, 4,261 boundary walls, and 6,140 tube wells are being constructed in government primary schools across the country.
In Dhaka Metropolitan city and Purbachal, 30 new school buildings are being completed, while a ten-storey Leadership Training Center has already been built in Cox's Bazar.
Teacher recruitment and professional development remain a major focus. The 2025 recruitment policy has been finalised, with a notification to be issued soon for the appointment of 16,027 assistant teachers in general, physical education, and music categories.
In addition, 2,382 head teachers will be appointed from the BCS (non-cadre) pool. A software-based gradation system is being introduced to ensure transparency in the promotion process, which will proceed after the resolution of legal matters.
In this fiscal year, 7,115 teachers will receive professional training, and a baseline survey will be conducted to assess student learning outcomes, according to the ministry sources.
The government has reinstated the Primary Scholarship Examination from 2025.
