Tk 66,401 cr sanctioned for education sector

24,040 crore in the budget for current FY 2019-20 while Tk 33,117 crore for the secondary and higher education sector, which was Tk. 29,624 crore in the current fiscal year and Tk8,344 crore for technical and madrasa education, which was Tk. 7,450 crore in current FY 2019-20.

“We have declared holidays to all academic institutions of the country since mid-March as part of our efforts to enforce social distancing to contain the spread of the COVID19 novel coronavirus. This has essentially caused a discontinuation of the regular academic curriculum of around 4 crore students across the country,” he said.

“Although the government has introduced the distant learning program on a limited scale during the holidays, the loss to the overall education sector has been enormous. Our most important task in education for the next fiscal year would be to bring back continuity in the curriculum and cover this loss from long study break. We are allocating sufficient resources to this sector in the next fiscal year to achieve this objective. In the last budget speech, I declared that we have devised various plans in the education sector keeping in mind the science and technology based education and especially the fourth industrial revolution, and that we have allocated sufficient resources in the education sector in coherence with this goal and objective. I would like to reiterate to the nation, through you, that these efforts will continue in the next fiscal year,” the minister added.