Neglected need based education

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Government's spending for the creation of technical or skill oriented educational institutions have been insufficient over the years. Even common sense indicates that if faster human resources development was really the objective in Bangladesh, then in the public sector at least 30 universities, 6 engineering universities, 30 engineering colleges, 30 agricultural colleges, 6 agricultural universities and 64 polytechnic institutes should have been set up by now.
The increase of these institutions by this number would be then considered as considerable and budgetary resources spent in bringing them into existence could be considered as exemplary of allocative efficiency. But what do we see in reality? We see that when government cannot find funds for the establishment of these vital institutions for stepped up creation of human resources, it seems to have no difficulty in liberally increasing grants to religious institutions and satisfying the appetite for corruption and inefficiency in the realm of primary, secondary and mass education.

Shihab Majundar
Uttara, Dhaka.