RANGPUR, Jun 27 (BSS): Speakers at a views sharing meeting here stressed the need for increasing the rate of primary-level sub-stipend money for further enhancing presence of the students belonging to the hardcore poor families to attain hundred per cent enrolments in the primary schools.
BRAC under its Advocacy for Social Empowerment Programme and Advocacy for Social Change organised the meeting for the school managing committee (SMC) members, headmasters, civil society members and elite at Dwarikapara Government Primary School under Pirganj Upazila Thursday afternoon.
Senior District Manager for Social Empowerment Programme of BRAC Majedul Islam Sarker attended the meeting as the chief guest with Chairman of the SMC of Dwarikapara Government Primary School Mostafizur Rahman in the chair.
Social Communicator of BRAC at Rangpur Regional Office Minhajul Islam, Headmaster of the Dwarikapara Government Primary School Mahbubar Rahman, journalist Abdul Karim Sarker and communication worker Asaduzzaman Asad, also addressed.
The speakers said the present government has taken various steps and put maximum importance with a view to ensuring 100 per cent enrollments to make the primary education programme for all children, including those belonging to the poorer families, successful.
To achieve the goal, the government has been providing Taka 100 per month to every poor primary school student side by side with giving free Tiffin and free books to ensure hundred per cent enrollments in all primary schools throughout the country, they said.
They suggested for increasing the amount of monthly sub-stipend for the primary school students and asked the SMC members, headmasters and teachers of the primary school for working with the guardians to ensure 100 percent enrollments of the hardcore poor students to bring dropouts to the zero level.
Highly lauding the steps taken by the government, the chief guest said the standard of primary education has been improving significantly during the past five years with drastic reduction in school dropouts in the process of building a completely educated nation in near future.
