The National Education Day was observed across the country yesterday with a call for ensuring fair education for all.
In Dhaka, student organisations began the day by placing wreaths at the Shikkha Odhikar Chattar where three students, Mostafa, Waziullah and Babul, were shot dead while protesting the 1962 Education Commission report during the Ayub Khan regime.
In Barisal, teachers and students observed the day recalling the sacrifice made by people during the education movement in 1962.
The National Front of Teachers and Employees held a rally at the Barisal City College.
Mojibur Rahman, Aminul Islam Khasru, Aminiur rahman Khokan, joint convener, Dr Mizanur Rahman, Jiban Krishna Dey and Dr Habibur Rahman addressed the programme among others.
The Samajtantrik Chhatra Front, formed a human chain in front of Ashwini Kumar Hall and procession on city roads on the occasion.
It was presided over by Dr Manisha Chakraborty and addressed among others by Tushar, Fariha Alam, and Antu.
Participants and speakers of the programmes said the mission of martyrs of 1962 and present visions of 2021 could never be realised without implementation of indiscriminate education policy and system.
They said no nation could achieve sustainable development with education as it was the backbone of the nation.
Education would never be standardised till the discrimination between government and non-government educational institutions and systems would not be removed, they added.
The speakers demanding indiscriminate education policy for the country said only nationalisation of education service and separate commission for education could end injustice of the existing discriminatory education system.