Stressing that education is a basic right, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said children must be enrolled in local schools without any written admission test.
She said: “It is not mandatory to go through a formal entrance examination for getting admitted into the primary schools.”
The prime minister was addressing a programme at Shilpokola Academy in Dhaka Sunday on the occasion of Children’s Rights Week, 2015.
She also directed the education ministry and other ministries concerned to take proper steps in this regard. “The entire process will be coordinated by the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO),” she added.
“Whenever a child turns to the age of getting admitted to class I, he or she should have to be admitted to and there’s no need to sit for test with printed papers because this is his or her right, not a matter of test,” she said.
“If the children are enrolled in schools through formal exams taking lesson at home, what is the duty of the schools?” the premier said.
Referring to a statistics that around 34 lakh children roam around the streets of Dhaka, the premier directed the ministries of women and children welfare and social welfare to look into the issue.
“No children shall roam around on the streets. No children shall lead sub-human life,” she said.