Staff Reporter:
Education and Primary and Mass Education Minister Dr ANM Ehsanul Hoque Milon yesterday said as per the government’s election promise, the piloting program of the distribution of free school dresses, shoes and jute bags among government primary school students will begin in next July.
He made the remarks while briefing reporters after an inter-ministerial meeting held at the Bangladesh Secretariat yesterday.
The Education minister said under this program, initially one set of school dress, shoes and jute bag will be given to class-I students of two government primary schools in each upazila of the country.
“Our program will be visible within the next 180 days. It will be gradually expanded to all government primary schools across the country and later to madrasa and ebtedayi students,” he said.
Dr Milon said alongside to the government, the country’s big business organizations and industrial entre-preneurs have come forward under the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) to implement this pro-gram.
BGMEA has already promised to provide one lakh sets of dresses and shoes, he said.
He hoped that big organizations like BKMEA, BTMA and Bashundhara Group will also actively partici-pate in this initiative.
At the briefing, State Minister for Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives Mir Shahe Alam highlighted the importance of this program and the government’s capacity.
He said the government has the full capacity to distribute free school dresses, jute bags and shoes to stu-dents across the country.
The inter-ministerial meeting was attended by Prime Minister’s Education and Primary and Mass Educa-tion Adviser Dr Mahdi Amin, State Minister for Textiles and Jute Shariful Alam, State Minister for Primary and Mass Education Bobby Hajjaj, State Minister for Cultural Affairs Ali Newaz Mahmood Khyom and BGMEA President Mahmudul Haque Babu, secretaries of the concerned ministries and rep-resentatives of different industrial groups.
