Education Minister Dr Dipu Moni on Sunday told the Jatiya Sangsad that the government planned to set up multimedia classrooms in 31,340 more schools while identical ICT facilities were installed by now in 32,667 educational institutions under different projects across the country.
“This (initiative) aims at ensuring more effective learning process making classes enjoyable,” she said replying to a starred question from treasury bench member M Nazrul Islam Babu of Narayanganj.
The minister said the government would simultaneously train 5,20,820 teachers at different level for conducting classes with modern technological facility.
Moni said the government in future would introduce ICT and multimedia facilities in all educational institutions.
She said out of the 32,667 multimedia classrooms installed, 23,331 were set up under secondary and higher secondary level education project through the ICT division.
Moni said the government established 31 digital language laboratories under ‘Establishment of Foreign Language Training Centre-2 Project’ and provided language training to 25,000 trainees so far from those digital language laboratories.
Mannan for addressing ‘lack of data’
Another report adds: Planning Minister MA Mannan on Sunday underscored the need for addressing the issue of ‘lack of data’ towards monitoring the progress of implementation of various Plans like 7th Five Year Plan and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
“We’ve deficit in availability of data both in quality and quantity … we’ll take the matter to the highest level of the government to move forward. We may undertake reforms in this regard,” he said.
The Planning Minister said this at a consultative meeting on finalizing the mid-term evaluation report on the 7th Five-Year Plan held at the NEC Conference Room in the city’s Sher-e-Bangla Nagar area this afternoon.
Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) under the Planning Ministry usually deals with the data, he said.
General Economics Division (GED) Member of the Planning Commission Prof Dr Shamsul Alam made a power-point presentation on the draft evaluation report.
He highlighted some challenges towards implementation of the 7th Five-Year Plan that includes resource mobilization, unplanned urbanization, utilization of resources, skills development and quality education, LDC graduation, governance challenges and taming inequality and regional disparity.
The total investment under the Plan will be $409.01 billion in constant 2015-16 prices; 90.04 percent of which will be financed from domestic resources and 9.6 percent from the external resources.
