Dhaka: Educational institutions have been asked to inform the ministry about the students who will be absent for more than ten days without any cogent reason, the Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid told media in Secretariat on Sunday.

In another programme at Dhaka College on Sunday, he urged parents to file general diaries with their respective police stations alongside circulating advertisement on print and electronic media on the missing children, reports BSS.

Law enforcement agencies would extend their maximum support to trace missing people, the education minister added.

Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Directorate acting director general SM Wahiduzzaman, Dhaka Education Board chairman Mahbubur Rahman and General Education Association president IK Selim Ullah Khandaker, among others, addressed the programme with Dhaka College principal Moyazzem Hossain in the chair.

Nahid said a vested quarter is launching conspiracy to misguide students through misinterpreting Islam to gain their ill-motive. He urged all, including teachers and parents, to resist the anti-state conspirators, who were using religion to achieve their personal gain.

Earlier, the education minister at a meeting with high officials of the ministry and its different organizations discussed different necessary measures against misinterpretation of religion.

On 9 July, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said members of the law enforcement agencies were conducting an in-depth investigation on the basis of media reports to recover the missing people.

‘Investigation into finding out the missing people, disconnected from their families for certain periods, is underway on the basis of the media reports,’ he added.

The home minister said that the law enforcement agencies have also urged all sections of the people for providing information about their family members, who have long been missing.