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ZAKIR-LITERACY
Country’s literacy stands at 74.7 percent: Zakir
DHAKA, Sept 8, 2020 (BSS) – State Minister for Primary and Mass
Education Md Zakir Hossen today revealed that the literacy rate in the
country has risen to 74.7 percent so far which was 53.5 percent in
2005 during the BNP-Jamaat government.
“The literacy rate of the country now stood at 74.7 percent while
it was only 53.5 percent in 2005 during the BNP-Jamaat alliance
government,” he said.
The state minister told the inaugural function of a daylong
programme marking the ‘International Literacy Day-2020’ at the
conference room of Bureau of Non-Formal Education (BNFE) in the city,
said a press release.
Presided over by Senior Primary and Mass Education Secretary Md
Akram-Al-Hossain, it was addressed, among others, by BNFE Director
General Tapan Kumar Ghosh.
Noting that Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
at first observed the International Literacy Day in Bangladesh, Zakir
said this year the day is being observed in a limited scale as the
schools remain closed for the last five months due to the global
pandemic coronavirus.
Father of the Nation paved the way of progressing the primary
education by nationalizing 36,165 primary schools and 157,724 teachers
in 1973, he said, adding that following the footsteps of her father,
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina also nationalized 26,139 primary schools
in 2013.
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