45,000 posts of pry school teacher vacant

Some 45,000 posts of teacher are lying vacant in primary schools across the country, Primary and Mass Education Minister Mostafizur Rahman told parliament yesterday.

Of the vacant posts, 17,615 are of headmasters' post and 27,388 are of assistant teachers', he said while replying to lawmakers' queries. 

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Among the vacant posts of headmaster, 8,736 are in government primary schools and 8,255 in the nationalised primary schools. The remaining are 624 posts, created under a project taken up to set up 1,500 new schools, the minister said in a scripted answer.

Of the vacant posts of assistant teacher, 17,298 are in government primary schools, 3,960 in pre-primary level of the schools and 3,278 in the nationalised primary schools. The rest are 2,852 posts, created under the project of establishment of 15,00 schools, he added. 

In reply to another query, Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid said around 5,574 non-government secondary schools lack necessary infrastructures.

To ensure congenial atmosphere for education, the Education Engineering Department under the education ministry was going to take up a project to construct necessary infrastructures in the schools, he said in a scripted answer.

Nahid also said drafting of the education bill to implement the National Education Policy-2010 was now at the final stage. “The draft education bill will be sent to the cabinet soon for its approval."