JS –02 Int’l Mother Language Institute Bill, 2019 placed in JS

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Int’l Mother Language Institute Bill, 2019 placed in JS

SANGSAD BHABAN, July 11, 2019 (BSS) – International Mother Language Institute Bill, 2019 was placed in the Jatiya Sangsad with an aim to amend the previous act for reinforcing the activities of the International Mother Language Institute.

Education Minister Dr Dipu Moni placed the bill in the House with Deputy Speaker Fazle Rabbi Miah in the chair.

Placing the bill, the education minister said the proposed bill will amend the previous act which was enacted on 2010. She said, the proposed bill was brought as per the agreement signed between the government of Bangladesh and the UNESCO in 2016.

As per the agreement, the member secretary of the Institute’s board of directors would be the director of the Institute , but now the Director-General (DG) of the Institute is the Head and member secretary of the board of directors which is conflicting, according to the bill.

The cabinet approved the draft of the ‘International Mother Language Institute (Amendment) Bill “on December 3, 2018, it said.

Under the proposed bill, a six-member Board of Directors will be formed with the Education Minister or his/her representative will be Chairman of the board.

Bangladesh UNESCO National Commission, Dhaka or its representative will be Secretary General of the board.

The other representatives of the board will be the Secretary of the Primary and Mass Education Ministry, Secretary of the Cultural Affairs Ministry, nominated representatives from UNESCO member states and a representative nominated by the UNESCO Director General.

Opposition lawmaker Fakhrul Imam has raised objection on the process of the bill, but later it was null and void with the voice votes.

The Education Minister urged the House to send the bill to the parliamentary standing committee on the Education for further scrutiny within two weeks.

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