Staff Correspondent:

Primary and Mass Education Adviser Professor Dr Bidhan Ranjan Roy Podder on Sunday said new recruitment and promotion will be given against the vacant posts aiming to ensure uninterrupted academic activities in primary schools across the country.

“The primary education sector is facing various challenges, including vacancies in the posts of officials, employees, headmasters and assistant teachers, which are hampering the academic activities in primary schools”, he said.

The adviser said this while exchanging views with officials involved in field level administration and primary education at the Deputy Commissioner’s office conference room here this morning.

“To improve the quality of primary education, mid-day meal has been launched . . . it will encourage many children to stay in the school and also to carry on their education,” said the adviser.

Even the Bureau of Non-Formal Education has separate arrangement for the dropout students who are compelled to leave their study due to financial reason.

Besides this, the Primary and Mass Education Ministry also has been implemented a three-year project on Skill Focused Literacy for Out of School Adolescent (SKILFO)  in Chattogram region where the students are being imparted with different life oriented works along with  their formal education programme.

The main objective of the programme is to make the student efficient and improve their earning capacity.

At the meeting, the education officials also said complexities in the birth registration programme are creating problem in providing stipend for the students. The scope for child labour is also posing a serious challenge to a section of school going students, they added.

With Deputy Commissioner of Cox’s Bazar Mohammad Salauddin in the chair, the meeting also was addressed, among others, by Primary and Mass Education Secretary Abu Taher Mohammad Masud Rana, director general of the Department of Primary Education Abu Nur Mohammad Shamsuzzaman and director general of the Bureau of Non-Formal Education Devbrato Chakrabarty.