The cabinet on Monday okayed the draft of the Non-formal Education Act, 2014 for ensuring primary education for all.
The approval was given in the regular meeting of the cabinet held at the cabinet room of the Jatiya Sangsad with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair.
Briefing reporters at Bangladesh Secretariat, Cabinet Secretary M Musharraf Hossain Bhuiyan said that under the law, a Non- formal Education Department will be established. The department will provide education for the children who are deprived of formal education due to dropouts or older persons who could not get formal education within their age of 14. The cabinet secretary said the priority of the government is to ensure education for every citizen as a huge number of children remain out of the formal education due to dropouts and other reasons.
Although the government is implementing a massive programme for the non-formal education and there has been huge achievement in this sector, some children and elderly persons still remained uneducated.
Under the proposed law, a non-formal education board for the management in the informal education sector will be constituted.
The cabinet meeting also approved drafts of two agreements. One of the agreements is for Twining, Cooperation and Exchange of Wards between Bangladesh Military Museum and Kuwait Liberation War Museum.
The agreement would empower the museums for exchange of information and experience as well as open wards in each others’ museum to show their military exhibits, the cabinet secretary said.
The other agreement will be inked with European Union (EU) on certain aspects of air services, he said.
He said Bangladesh now has separate agreement with eight EU countries. The new agreement would harmonize the previous deals strengthening cooperation with EU countries on aviation services. Musharraf Hossain said, at the beginning of the meeting, the cabinet congratulated Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her son and advisor on IT Affairs Sajeeb Wajed Joy for Bangladesh’s receiving the International Society Award of International Telecommunication Union (ITU) for success in the ICT sector. “The success was out of commitment and political will and vision of the Prime Minister and her son for building the digital Bangladesh,” the cabinet said.
