Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid on Tuesday said a total of 531 educational institutions have been damaged during election violence across the country.
Of the damaged institutions, 419 are primary schools, while 82 are high schools, 21 madrasas and nine are colleges, the minister informed reporters while visiting the damaged Faydabad Government Primary School at Dakkhinkhan in the capital. Nahid said, “The government will take necessary initiatives for repairing these damaged institutions after getting the reports so that the education is not hampered.”
He also asked the upazila education officers to submit reports of the damaged educational institutions as soon as possible.
“Such barbaric and heinous attacks on the educational institutions are a planned attempt to destroy the educational system of the country. In the name of movement, the anti-liberation forces Jamaat-Shibir in collaboration with BNP are orchestrating such violent activities to take revenge of their defeat in 1971,” Nahid observed.
He also called upon the people from all strata including students, teachers, guardians, locals to save their respective educational institutions from the evil forces and urged the affluent segment of the society to come forward to assist in repairing the damaged ones.
Among others, secretary to the ministry of primary and mass education Kazi Akhter Hossain and director general of primary education directorate Shyamol Kanti Ghosh, were also present on the occasion.
Courtesy of The Independent
