Educationists on Tuesday called for incorporation of education as a fundamental right in the Constitution, now awaiting sweeping amendment.
Speaking at a roundtable they said that the citizens would be able to fight for equal opportunities of education if it was made a constitutionally recognised fundamental right.
The state must create equal opportunity for all the citizens irrespective of their financial or social status to get education as the Constitution made education a responsibility of the state.
Qazi Kholiquzzaman Ahmed, co-chairman of the committee which formulated the new national education policy said that the government should make education a fundamental right of the citizens in the Constitution, now in the process of amendment.
National Front of Teachers and Employees hosted the discussion on budgetary allocation for education at National Press Club.
Former Jahangirnagar University vice chancellor Qazi Saleh Ahmed, Dhaka University professor Akhtaruzzaman, NFTE chief convenor Quazi Faruque Ahmed spoke, among others.
Kholiquzzaman said that in his budget speech, the finance minister forgot to mention the government's new education policy.
He said that the finance minister should have mentioned the new education policy in the national budget for the next fiscal.
He said that the budget for the next fiscal should have set aside a special allocation for a permanent Education Commission, under the consideration of the government and also for the creation of an accreditation council for private universities.
He said that sustainable development would remain a distant dream without giving due importance to education.
Kazi Saleh said that educational institutions run by the military gets a big allocation from the education sector, though defence gets a massive allocation from the national budget.
He said that the government should consider whether their educational institutions run by the military could be run with the funds they get from the budget.
Source : New Age
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