10 school hostels to be built in CHT: Minister
Sunday, 7 February 2010
Our Correspondent
RANGAMATI, Feb 06: The country must have to be freed from illiteracy by 2014 and so the government has taken initiatives to enroll all children to schools within 2011 in the country.
Dr. Afsarul Amin, minister for Primary and Mass Education ministry yesterday said while addressing a seminar at the premises of Rangamati Municipality office as chief guest.
Primary Teachers Association of Rangamati organised the seminar.
Underlining the need for appointing well-qualified teachers for ensuring quality education in the country, the minister said that without skilled teachers raising, the standard of education is absolutely impossible.
Considering the backwardness of the CHT areas, some 10 school hostels will be constructed for creating more facility for the indigenous students. Two primary training institutes (PTI) one in Bandarban and another in Khagrachhari will also be set up, he added.
More primary teachers will be recruited in phases for overcoming the problem of shortage of teachers at different primary schools, he assured.
Urging the teachers to discharge their duties properly, Afsarul assured them in resolving their problems gradually, not at a time.
Despite constraint of government funds, the present AL-led grand alliance government declared 'pay scale' for the public servants for their betterment, minister said, adding that the government is trying to form separate teacher's recruitment and pay commission for the welfare of the primary teachers.
RANGAMATI, Feb 06: The country must have to be freed from illiteracy by 2014 and so the government has taken initiatives to enroll all children to schools within 2011 in the country.
Dr. Afsarul Amin, minister for Primary and Mass Education ministry yesterday said while addressing a seminar at the premises of Rangamati Municipality office as chief guest.
Primary Teachers Association of Rangamati organised the seminar.
Underlining the need for appointing well-qualified teachers for ensuring quality education in the country, the minister said that without skilled teachers raising, the standard of education is absolutely impossible.
Considering the backwardness of the CHT areas, some 10 school hostels will be constructed for creating more facility for the indigenous students. Two primary training institutes (PTI) one in Bandarban and another in Khagrachhari will also be set up, he added.
More primary teachers will be recruited in phases for overcoming the problem of shortage of teachers at different primary schools, he assured.
Urging the teachers to discharge their duties properly, Afsarul assured them in resolving their problems gradually, not at a time.
Despite constraint of government funds, the present AL-led grand alliance government declared 'pay scale' for the public servants for their betterment, minister said, adding that the government is trying to form separate teacher's recruitment and pay commission for the welfare of the primary teachers.