We should not forget them
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Private University Act has opened a new opportunity for higher education in our country. Jamir Uddin Sirkar, the then Honourable Education Minister, amended the bill in the parliament in 1992. To date there are 51 private universities in our country. Millions of students, whose future was gloomy, got admitted there. They are becoming highly qualified and skilled manpower. Today, they have replaced unlettered and unskilled manpower of the country and become the “income ladder” for Bangladesh in the international job market. Copying in the examinations was a cancer in our education system. It has been eliminated totally. Now our education system has achieved an international standard both qualitatively and quantitatively. A.N.M. Ahsanul Hoque Milon, the then State Minister for Education, did it in the second term of BNP era. He conceived a vision and returned back to Bangladesh with a mission sacrificing his American citizenship. He won his constituency, became the state minister and did the job. Both the men did excellent job in the field of education, one for quantitative coverage and the other for qualitative finishing touch. Both of them have made our independence really meaningful. Their activities were so sequential, synergistic and complementary that a revolution has occurred in our education sector. Their contributions to the nation should be honoured and remembered by all.
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