The government has allocated Tk 38,819 crore in the Primary and Mass Education sector in the national budget for FY 2024-25.
Last year, the government allocated Tk 34,722 crore in this sector for FY 2023-24.
Finance Minister AH Mahmood Ali proposed the allocation while placing the national budget at the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban on Thursday.
The finance minister while placing the budget said that a child's knowledge base is formed at the primary level of education. Therefore, the impact of primary education on national development is significant and it is one of the main steps to ensure sustainable development.
In view of this, new activities will be taken up for the development of this sector besides speeding up the ongoing activities for the development of primary education, he added.
He said 2,38,579 teachers have been recruited from 2009 to 2023 and 26,366 new posts of assistant teachers have been created to ensure the quality of education and to increase the teacher-student ratio.
As a result, the number of teachers increased from 1 for every 52 students in 2006 to 1 for every 33 students in 2022.
"Smart citizens will be instrumental to building a developed, prosperous and smart Bangladesh by 2041. Therefore, we need to properly train our future generation in science, technology and technical education to achieve the dream of building smart Bangladesh," Mahmood Ali said in his budget speech.
In this regard, primary school teachers are being trained in 5 core and 3 non-core subjects to improve their skills, said the minister.
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