A total of 16,207 posts of the headmasters have been remaining vacant in the government primary schools across the country, Primary and Mass Education Minister Mostafizur Rahman told the Jatiya Sangsad on Thursday.
Replying to a question from Jatiya Party lawmaker AKM Maidul Islam (Kurigram-3), the minister said the number of vacant posts in the old government primary schools is 7,952, while it is 8,255 in the newly nationalized (primary) schools.
Mostafizur said the post of headmaster has been upgraded to class two. “The issue of sending information of vacant posts in the specific graph of the Public Service Commission to appoint headmasters is under process,” he said.
Responding to a question from treasury bench member Jahan Ara Begum Surma (women seat-32), Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid said Taka 152,97,39,000 have been allocated in the current fiscal year for providing stipends to nearly 5.75 lakh students through the Higher Secondary Stipend Project under the Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Directorate.
The education minister told independent lawmaker Md Rustam Ali Farazi (Pirojpur-3) that there are 91 private universities across the country. “The government has given permission to set up and run six private universities in the current fiscal year,” he said.
The universities are: the International University of Scholars at Pragati Smarani, Badda in Dhaka, the Canadian University of Bangladesh in Tejgaon Industrial Area in Dhaka, among its.
the NPI University of Bangladesh at Narangai in Manikganj, the Northern University of Business and Technology in Khulna, the Rabindra Moitree University at Housing Estate in Kushtia and the University of Creative Technology at Chandgaon in Chittagong.
