Nationalise all private primary, community schools
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All privately run primary and community schools will have to be nationalised, a parliamentary body recommended yesterday.
In a meeting at the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban, the public accounts committee of the parliament also asked the railway authority to take actions against its officials responsible for their failure to get the concrete railway sleeper done between 1987 and 1998.
"There are nearly 19,700 privately run schools in the country including primary level and the government bears maximum expenditure of those schools.
"The government also helps to set up those schools. Therefore, it would not take much money for the government to nationalise them," Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir, chief of the committee said.
Emerging from the meeting, Alamgir said, "Our constitution declares that there will be no discrimination in the primary level education. Keeping this in mind, the committee today [yesterday] made the proposal."
About irregularities and damage of public money in railway, he said, "The committee asked the railway authorities to come up before it within next thirty days with a detailed report on why the target of making concrete railway sleepers could not be achieved between 1987 and 1998."
Taka 26.43 crore was lost for not achieving the target,” added Alamgir, also a ruling Awami League lawmaker.
The committee asked the railway authority to resume operations of concrete sleeper plant as soon as possible.
Replying to a separate issue of the Supreme Court verdict of scrapping his membership in parliament, Alamgir said, all should obey the verdict of the court.
He also said all charges brought against him during the past caretaker government were proved false in the court.
Alamgir did not make it clear whether he would file review petition in the Supreme Court against the verdict.
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