Education Policy
Md. Masum Billah
The Education Ministry on Friday issued an order to the relevant authorities to give salaries from the state exchequer to the teachers and employees of only 1022 non-government educational institutions out of nearly 6000 such institutions which had been in the queue for several years. Immediately after the announcement of the MPO list, many deprived teachers, accompanied by political activists, staged protest and blocked roads in different places of the country. A section of AL leaders including a lawmaker, on May 10 came to the education ministry where they told newsmen that new educational institutions get the government’s financial assistance in the form of monthly pay order only in exchange for bribes. But we like to place the questions ‘who took the bribes? It is an established fact that our Education Minister does not take any bribe. He has proved himself far above this illegal practice. Then who took the bribes and why? They made a noisy scene at the office of the education minister in the secretariat and shouted slogans against three officials close to Nahid for allegedly giving the MPO facilities for kickbacks.
Education minister Nurul Islam Nahid on May 11 came under fire from his colleagues apparently for not favouring the non-government educational institutions established by Awami League leaders or the party sympathizers in granting ‘monthly pay orders.’ They alleged that many non-government intuitions named after the country’s founding president, Sheikth Mujibur Rahman and also after freedom fighters had not been enlisted for the facility in the form of ‘monthly pay order’ while some schools, colleges and madrassas named after ‘ notorious people, including criminals,’ were on the list , said a state minster after the meeting.Most of the ministers demanded a review of the recently announced MPO list to accommodate more schools, colleges and madeassas established or patronized by leaders of Bangladesh Nationalist Party and Bangladesh Jamat-e-Islami from the list. Political consideration and name must not be given priority if the government really wants to a neutral and reasonable education policy. A set of criteria was fixed and announced for including educational institutions on the MPO list and the Education minister followed the criteria. The criteria go thus: the number of students in non-MPO institutions, numbers of students taking public examination every year, and the pass rate and the dates of government approval for the institutions. Sticking to the set rules and doing work accordingly not only helps establish transparency but also discourages the lobbying groups who disturb the ongoing honest activities of the state. The government must realize the fact. Earlier, a number of lawmakers from the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party alleged that the government had been biased in preparing the list as the institutions in their areas were left out on political consideration. The opposition could not set so many good examples in this regard though their success in eradicating ‘copying ‘ in the public examination commands respect. The policy adopted by the ministry of education under the leadership of Nurul Islam Nahid hardly makes any room to look with frowned eye. We are proud of him.
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The Education Ministry on Friday issued an order to the relevant authorities to give salaries from the state exchequer to the teachers and employees of only 1022 non-government educational institutions out of nearly 6000 such institutions which had been in the queue for several years. Immediately after the announcement of the MPO list, many deprived teachers, accompanied by political activists, staged protest and blocked roads in different places of the country. A section of AL leaders including a lawmaker, on May 10 came to the education ministry where they told newsmen that new educational institutions get the government’s financial assistance in the form of monthly pay order only in exchange for bribes. But we like to place the questions ‘who took the bribes? It is an established fact that our Education Minister does not take any bribe. He has proved himself far above this illegal practice. Then who took the bribes and why? They made a noisy scene at the office of the education minister in the secretariat and shouted slogans against three officials close to Nahid for allegedly giving the MPO facilities for kickbacks.
Education minister Nurul Islam Nahid on May 11 came under fire from his colleagues apparently for not favouring the non-government educational institutions established by Awami League leaders or the party sympathizers in granting ‘monthly pay orders.’ They alleged that many non-government intuitions named after the country’s founding president, Sheikth Mujibur Rahman and also after freedom fighters had not been enlisted for the facility in the form of ‘monthly pay order’ while some schools, colleges and madrassas named after ‘ notorious people, including criminals,’ were on the list , said a state minster after the meeting.Most of the ministers demanded a review of the recently announced MPO list to accommodate more schools, colleges and madeassas established or patronized by leaders of Bangladesh Nationalist Party and Bangladesh Jamat-e-Islami from the list. Political consideration and name must not be given priority if the government really wants to a neutral and reasonable education policy. A set of criteria was fixed and announced for including educational institutions on the MPO list and the Education minister followed the criteria. The criteria go thus: the number of students in non-MPO institutions, numbers of students taking public examination every year, and the pass rate and the dates of government approval for the institutions. Sticking to the set rules and doing work accordingly not only helps establish transparency but also discourages the lobbying groups who disturb the ongoing honest activities of the state. The government must realize the fact. Earlier, a number of lawmakers from the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party alleged that the government had been biased in preparing the list as the institutions in their areas were left out on political consideration. The opposition could not set so many good examples in this regard though their success in eradicating ‘copying ‘ in the public examination commands respect. The policy adopted by the ministry of education under the leadership of Nurul Islam Nahid hardly makes any room to look with frowned eye. We are proud of him.
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