To ensure State commitment of quality education for all, allocation in education sector should be increased in the national budget. Transparency, accountability and realistic planning in the allocation of budget expenditure must be ensured. Minimum 6 percent of GDP or 20 percent of the national budget should be allocated in the education sector.
Speakers said this in the consultation meeting at the BRDB Auditorium in Noakhali on 31st January, Wednesday. In collaboration with the CSEF, Campaign for Popular Education-CAMPE and NRDS jointly organized this consultation meeting.
In the meeting, the participants demanded to remove all discrimination in education and said that improving education quality cannot be possible without eradication of discrimination. We should ensure the same standard education throughout the country, regardless of the towns, hills, coastal, haor and flat areas.
We should increase budget allocation for technical education and employment oriented education sector. In addition to prepare an international standard curriculum and increasing the quality of the teachers, budget should be allocated in the teacher’s training & education research.
The budget allocation for conducting quality research in higher education should be increased. To prevent the drop out from primary education, students should get lunch at all primary schools. Speakers have urged to launch mid day school lunch program in coastal char areas of Noakhali on an urgent basis.
Chief Coordinator of NRDS Abdul Awal conducted the meeting. Among others, District Secondary Education Officer Gias Uddin, deputy director of the district non-formal education bureau, Bidut Roy Barmon, District Primary Education Officer Mohammad Saidul Islam, Noakhali Technical Training Center’s Principal Didar Hossain, Assistant Professor of Sonapur Degree College Shakila Pervin, Executive Director of PRAN Nurul Alam Masud, central president of Primary School Assistant Teacher Association Mohammad Shamsuddin Masud, Advocate Golam Akbar and others spoke on that occasion.