Tk 211.12b allocated for HR development
FE Report | Tuesday, 10 June 2008
The government has allocated Tk 211.12 billion in the proposed national financial bill of the next fiscal for human resources development, which is 21.1 per cent of the total budget.
'I propose to allocate Tk 21,112 crore in the proposed budget for human resources development, which is 21.1 per cent of the total budget,' said Finance Adviser AB Mirza Azizul Islam in his budget speech Monday.
Human resource development is one of the prime conditions for achieving sustained economic and social development. education and health are the major inputs for human resource development, he added.
Dr Aziz said in the FY 2008-09, as many as 3.3 million newly literate persons will be imparted job-oriented training to help them retain their level of literacy and raise their living standards.
The 6-year Second Primary Education Development Programme (PEDP-II) with an outlay of Tk 18 billion is being implemented to widen primary education and enhance its quality.
Around 5.5 million students are receiving stipends annually. All these steps have helped achieve the 50:50 ratio of male and female students in government primary schools, he mentioned.
The ongoing programme will continue to bring down the current student-teacher ratio of 55:1 to 46:1 and to increase the rate of enrollment to 90 per cent by 2009, he added.
The Non-government Teachers' Registration and Certification Authority (NTRCA) is working on ensuring recruitment of quality teachers, he disclosed.
In order to reduce the disparity that exists in quality of education between urban and rural areas, he said steps have been taken to establish model high schools in those upazilas where there are no government schools. A selection process is underway to select 63 schools to convert them into model high schools.
The Adviser claimed a significant progress has been made in female education, following the increased enrollment of female students at secondary and higher secondary level by 52 per cent.
Against this backdrop, he said a stipend programme for poor male students will also be introduced in next fiscal year in 121 upazilas to increase the rate of enrollment of male students.
Guidelines for the female stipend programme will be revised to lay greater emphasis on quality education, he mentioned. Only around 2-3 per cent of the total students at the secondary and higher secondary level receive technical and vocational education.
Consistent with national goals, he said vocational education at various levels is being introduced to equip the youth force with technical and vocational skills.
Referring to the education in both public and private sectors, he said the government has recently approved the Private Universities Ordinance, 2008. Under this Ordinance, an Accreditation Council will be constituted to compare 'our' higher education system with the international standards to determine the standing of our public and private universities.
'In the next fiscal year, I propose to allocate Tk 150 million to carry out research in the areas of physical, mathematical and biological sciences against our allocation of Tk 100 million in the current fiscal year to this end,' he said in his budget speech.
About the health sector, he said adequate and planned investment in the health sector is fundamental to human resource development.
To this end, he said the government is implementing a seven-year (2003-2010) Health, Nutrition and Population Sector Programme (HNPSP) at an estimated outlay of Tk 324.50 billion. As a step towards updating the existing policies and laws, he said the government is revising the National Health Policy, rules relating to hospital waste management, private medicare laws and the Essential Drugs Lists.
'I propose to allocate Tk 21,112 crore in the proposed budget for human resources development, which is 21.1 per cent of the total budget,' said Finance Adviser AB Mirza Azizul Islam in his budget speech Monday.
Human resource development is one of the prime conditions for achieving sustained economic and social development. education and health are the major inputs for human resource development, he added.
Dr Aziz said in the FY 2008-09, as many as 3.3 million newly literate persons will be imparted job-oriented training to help them retain their level of literacy and raise their living standards.
The 6-year Second Primary Education Development Programme (PEDP-II) with an outlay of Tk 18 billion is being implemented to widen primary education and enhance its quality.
Around 5.5 million students are receiving stipends annually. All these steps have helped achieve the 50:50 ratio of male and female students in government primary schools, he mentioned.
The ongoing programme will continue to bring down the current student-teacher ratio of 55:1 to 46:1 and to increase the rate of enrollment to 90 per cent by 2009, he added.
The Non-government Teachers' Registration and Certification Authority (NTRCA) is working on ensuring recruitment of quality teachers, he disclosed.
In order to reduce the disparity that exists in quality of education between urban and rural areas, he said steps have been taken to establish model high schools in those upazilas where there are no government schools. A selection process is underway to select 63 schools to convert them into model high schools.
The Adviser claimed a significant progress has been made in female education, following the increased enrollment of female students at secondary and higher secondary level by 52 per cent.
Against this backdrop, he said a stipend programme for poor male students will also be introduced in next fiscal year in 121 upazilas to increase the rate of enrollment of male students.
Guidelines for the female stipend programme will be revised to lay greater emphasis on quality education, he mentioned. Only around 2-3 per cent of the total students at the secondary and higher secondary level receive technical and vocational education.
Consistent with national goals, he said vocational education at various levels is being introduced to equip the youth force with technical and vocational skills.
Referring to the education in both public and private sectors, he said the government has recently approved the Private Universities Ordinance, 2008. Under this Ordinance, an Accreditation Council will be constituted to compare 'our' higher education system with the international standards to determine the standing of our public and private universities.
'In the next fiscal year, I propose to allocate Tk 150 million to carry out research in the areas of physical, mathematical and biological sciences against our allocation of Tk 100 million in the current fiscal year to this end,' he said in his budget speech.
About the health sector, he said adequate and planned investment in the health sector is fundamental to human resource development.
To this end, he said the government is implementing a seven-year (2003-2010) Health, Nutrition and Population Sector Programme (HNPSP) at an estimated outlay of Tk 324.50 billion. As a step towards updating the existing policies and laws, he said the government is revising the National Health Policy, rules relating to hospital waste management, private medicare laws and the Essential Drugs Lists.