Charukala Shikkhak Parishad Bangladesh, a platform of government school fine arts teachers, on Tuesday submitted a memorandum with signatures of fine arts teachers to the education ministry, demanding due importance to fine arts in the national education policy.
Before submitting the memorandum, the organisation also formed human chains simultaneously in front of Dhaka University fine arts faculty, Chittagong University fine arts faculty, Khulna University fine arts faculty, Rajshahi University fine arts faculty and Mymensingh Kabi Kazi Nazrul Islam University, where members of the organisation collected signatures from all government school fine arts teachers on the day.
Renowned artists and Dhaka University fine arts faculty including Shishir Bhattacharya, Qayyum Chowdhury, Rafiqun Nabi, Khushi Kabir, Hashem Khan also put their signatures in the memorandum, in which they placed forth five-point demand.
The demands included making fine arts compulsory in Class 1-12, reserved post for fine arts teacher at all government and non-government schools, due status for the teachers of the subject and introducing fine arts in junior school certificate and primary school certificate examination.
Parishad general secretary Jakir Hossain Fakir, Shere Banglanagar School fine arts teacher Atik Mamun, DU graphic design department teacher Israfil Ratan, among other, were present at the human chain.
Source : New Age
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