Dhaka: Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid on Thursday said the government had undertaken various measures to stop coaching business of teachers as per as the Coaching Guidelines 2012.

The education minister said this in Parliament responding to a question of treasury bench member M Rahmat Ali.

Nahid said as per the guidelines monitoring committees have been formed at metropolitan, district and upazila level and as a result of activities of the committees progress has been made in checking coaching business.

He said punitive measures are being taken against the teachers involved in coaching business as per recommendations of the committees.

Transfer and posting of teachers at government educational institutions are being made in view of the teacher’s involvement in coaching business.

Govt will train 3,100 teachers

Nurul Islam Nahid today said the government had taken a project to train 3,100 teachers within this year for integrating the autistic children into the mainstream education of the country.

The minister made the assertion responding to a question of treasury bench member Fazilatunnesa Bappi.

Nahid said under the project 1,550 teachers at schools, colleges and seminaries have already been given three-day training. A total of 76 workshops were also organised at the upazila-level, he said.

The government has taken an initiative to establish an autistic academy under a project of Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education, he said adding, 100 autistic boys and an equal number of girls will be accommodated separately at the hostel of the academy.

The hostel will have the provisions of giving therapy to the autistic children to help them accustom to normal life, the minister added.

Stipends

Responding to a question from treasury bench member Jahan Ara Begum Surma (women seat-32), Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid said Tk 152 crore 97 lakh have been allocated in the current fiscal year for providing stipends to nearly 5.75 lakh students through the Higher Secondary Stipend Project under the Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Directorate.

Private Universities

The education minister told independent lawmaker Md Rustam Ali Farazi (Pirojpur-3) that there are 91 private universities across the country. ‘The government has given permission to set up and run six private universities in the current fiscal year,’ he said.

The universities are: the International University of Scholars at Pragati Smarani, Badda in Dhaka, the Canadian University of Bangladesh in Tejgaon Industrial Area in Dhaka, the NPI University of Bangladesh at Narangai in Manikganj, the Northern University of Business and Technology in Khulna, the Rabindra Moitree University at Housing Estate in Kushtia and the University of Creative Technology at Chandgaon in Chittagong.