Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid said the government is providing adequate opportunities to ensure education for all.
“We have taken different affirmative policy actions including introducing
stipend programmes and providing free textbooks, which eventually help check
student dropout rate,” he said this on Sunday while speaking at a freshers’ reception function of first year students of Dhaka College, an official release said.Nahid said despite a number of challenges, Bangladesh has some remarkable and praiseworthy achievements in the education sector. He said, “You (students) are the future of the country. So, you have to be good citizens through acquiring knowledge to boost the development process for building a prosperous Bangladesh.”
Secretary of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Division Md Sohrab Hossain and Director General of Directorate of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Prof Md Mahabubur Rahman, among others, addressed the function with Principal of the College Prof Md Moazzem Hossain Mollah in the chair.
