A Correspondent:
Rangpur: Primary and Mass Education Adviser Professor Dr Bidhan Ranjan Roy Podder yesterday said primary level students will receive 100 percent textbooks in January, but there will be no celebrations like before.
“There are questions about the quality of primary school teachers recruited before nationalization of primary schools in 2013. However, the physical infrastructures of primary schools and general quality of teachers have improved,” he said.
The adviser said this while talking to local reporters at the inauguration ceremony of a two-day work-shop, organized by the Directorate of Primary Education on the RDRS premises yesterday afternoon.
Director General of the Directorate of Primary Education Dr Md Abdul Hakim, its Rangpur Divisional Deputy Director Md Azizur Rahman and Assistant Director Nazrul Islam were present.
Later, the advisor attended the two-day workshop titled ‘Fifth Phase Primary Education Development Programme’, organized by the Department of Primary Education as the chief guest.
Professor Bidhan Ranjan said there is a difference in the quality of teachers recruited before nationaliza-tion of primary schools.
He said, “We’ve our own training program. So, if a teacher has potential, then there is an opportunity to train him or her to improve performance.”
