Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has stressed the need for a separate commission for appointment of teachers at all level of education.
She said this while addressing a meeting with the officials of the ministry at the secretariat on Sunday, reports BSS.
The prime minister arrived at the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education as part of her plan to visit every ministry to expedite their activities.
A separate commission for teachers is needed to maintain standard in recruiting teachers for primary and secondary schools, the premier said.
"Without a separate commission the existing problem of recruiting eligible teacher could not be solved," she realized.
The PM informed that the matter has already been discussed with the Ministry of Finance.
Opinion of the Ministry of Public Administration would be taken to avoid any complexity in this regard, she said.
Hasina said the government has increased the salaries and benefits of the teachers and new pay commission would resolve the gaps between different salary scales.
Besides, the salaries and other benefits of the teachers would be fixed calculating the family members of civil servant six instead of four, she said.
The prime minister proposed the ministry to open a pre-primary school in the children's day-care centre of Bangladesh Secretariat to create opportunity for the children to take their pre-primary education from the centre.
Sheikh Hasina also asked the ministry for taking steps for flourishing the talent as well as mental and physical growth of the children in the areas of sports and extra curriculum activities particularly outside Dhaka through arranging inter-school sports and cultural competitions.
The PM said the government has already formulated the Non-formal Education Act aimed to making the country fully free from illiteracy and provide education to employed people eager to take education.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said her government has attached highest importance to primary education as primary education is the key to make an educated society to build poverty free Bangladesh.
Realising the importance of primary education, Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had made the primary education compulsory and free of cost even the country's economy was very weak after the independence, she cited.
Bangabandhu also made the female education fully free up to secondary level considering its importance and incorporated education as one of the basic rights of the people in the constitution, she mentioned.
Sheikh Hasina said her government nationalized 26,000 primary schools for the second time in the country's history after Bangabandhu who had nationalized all 36,165 primary schools of the country after independence.
"Training of the teachers is very important to use the technology and cope with the changing world," she said.
