The government will give primary school pupils money for buying uniforms from the next year, the state minister for primary and mass education Md Zakir Hossain has said.
"The pupils each will get Tk 2000 [for buying uniform], alongside new textbooks," he told a views-exchange meeting on quality education at the Kurigram deputy commissioner's conference room on Saturday afternoon.
For the first time, to commemorate a national day (National Mourning Day on 15th August) this year, every school was given Tk 2000 and it would be Tk 5000 from the next year, the junior minister said.
In addition, Zakir Hossain said, those schools damaged by flood will each receive Tk 0.5 million and it is now under process.
Additional secretary Badrul Hasan Bulbul, Rangpur divisional deputy director Abdul Wahab, among others, attended the meeting with deputy commissioner Sultana Parveen in the chair.
