BSS-19 Ensuring quality education is our priority: Nahid

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Ensuring quality education is our priority: Nahid

DHAKA, Dec 28, 2017 (BSS) – Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid today said
ensuring quality education is now the government’s priority.

“Now, ensuring quality education is the target of the government…apart
from this, we’ve to build the new generation with honesty, moral values and
patriotism,” he said while addressing a fresher reception and prize
distribution ceremony of intermediate students of Milestone College at Uttara
here.

The Education Minister said the country’s new generation should be built as
‘good human being’ as they will lead the country in the future.

Noting that textbooks have been distributing free of cost among students
since 2009, Nahid said around 35.43 crore textbooks will be distributed in
2018.

He said the children of the poor families are now coming to educational
institutions as the government is distributing textbooks free of cost among
them.

Chairman of the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Dhaka, Prof
M Mahabubur Rahman, Principal of Milestone College Prof Md Shahidul Islam and
Advisor of the College Colonel (retd) Nurunnabi, among others, spoke on the
occasion.

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