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Grant No. 17
24 - Ministry of Primary and Mass Education
Medium Term Expenditure
(in thousand Taka)
Budget 2008-09
Projection 2009-10
Projection 2010-11
Non-Development
3603,99,85
3492,59,71
3684,49,54
Development
2369,35,00
3785,02,49
4303,56,92
Total
5973,34,85
7277,62,20
7988,06,46
1.
Mission Statement and Major Functions
1.1
Mission Statement
To ensure quality primary and basic education for all, through the expansion of
facilities and improvement of standards.
1.2
Major Functions
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2.
Formulation and implementation of policies concerning primary and mass
education;
Implementation and monitoring of the compulsory primary education
programme;
Implementation of the mass education programme through a non-formal
education process;
Development of curriculum at the primary level;
Preparation, printing and distribution of textbooks;
Training and research activities relating to primary and mass education;
Coordination of the activities of other Ministries, Government agencies and
NGOs in the field of mass literacy and adult education.
Medium Term Strategic Objectives
Medium Term
Strategic Objectives
1. Expansion of
opportunities for
primary education
Medium Term Targets
(Probable Outcome)
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Increase the net
enrolment rate from
87.20% to 92.00%
Increase the gross
enrolment rate from
93.70% to 107.00%
Key Activities
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Reconstruction of
schools
Construction of
toilets
Repair and
maintenance of
schools
Stipend
programme
Implementing
Departments/
Agencies
 Directorate
of Primary
Education
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Medium Term
Strategic Objectives
Medium Term Targets
(Probable Outcome)
Key Activities
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Education
allowances and
stipend for
disadvantaged
and drop-out
students
Ensure that all
classrooms are
friendly for boys
and girls and the
disabled
Supply of
textbooks, free of
cost and in a
timely fashion
Inclusion of
registered nonGovernment
schools and
community
schools on the
Monthly Payment
Order (MPO) list
Implementing
Departments/
Agencies

Compulsory
Primary
Education
Implementati
on and
Monitoring
Unit
3.
Impact of Strategic Objectives on Poverty Reduction and
Women’s Advancement
3.1
Expansion of opportunities for primary education
Impact on Poverty Reduction: The children of poor families will receive
opportunities to access primary education through stipend programmes,
education allowances and infrastructural development activities for primary
schools. Infrastructural development programmes for improving access to
education facilities will create employment opportunities for the poor.
Impact on Women’s Advancement: The infrastructure of 16,397 primary
schools will be developed to provide more opportunities for access to primary
education. About 32 lakh students will benefit from this initiative. Approximately
50.00% of the existing beneficiaries of primary education are girls. As a result,
the varying activities and programmes undertaken to improve access to primary
education will contribute to women’s advancement.
Approximately 55 lakh boys and girls receive stipends under the various stipend
programmes. Through the ROCH project, education allowances are given to
five lakh drop out children and, as almost half of the beneficiaries are female,
these programmes are contributing to women’s advancement.
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4. Priority Spending Areas/Programmes
Priority Spending Areas/Programmes
Related Strategic Objectives
1. Teachers Training: Attempts have been made for
qualitative improvement in education through
imparting various training courses including C.in.Ed
and subject based training to the teachers engaged
in primary education. By 2011, C.in.Ed training will
be provided to 90.00% of the teachers i.e., about
190,600 teachers.
Strategic Objective Number 9
Development of the skills of
teachers
2. Education Aids: The supply of different teaching
materials like books, bags, supplementary reading
materials etc. to the primary school students will
improve the quality of education. The provision of
education through appropriate processes and
methods greatly contributes to improve the
effectiveness of education. On average, six crore
text books are distributed free of cost every year.
Strategic Objective Number 1
Increased opportunities for access
to primary education
Strategic Objective Number 2
Improve the quality of primary
education.
3. Stipend/Education Allowance: On the basis of
specific guidelines, stipend and education
allowances are given to the children of marginal
families and disadvantaged students as opportunity
cost in order to increase attendance and the
completion rates for the education cycle, and
eliminate the propensity for drop out.
Strategic Objective Number 1
Increased opportunities for access
to primary education
Strategic Objective Number 3
Ensure equality and equity in the
field of primary education
Strategic Objective Number 4
Increase enrolment, school
attendance and primary education
cycle completion rates of the
students of poor families
4. Post literacy Continued Education Programme:
Measures are taken to increase the income of the
30 lakh newly literate persons through sharpening
their literacy knowledge and by providing training in
income generating activities. The beneficiaries of
the training programmes are playing an important
role in the overall development of their families
through utilising their knowledge gained at an
earlier stage in the education process.
Strategic Objective Number 5
Increase literacy rates
Strategic Objective Number 6
Bring dynamism in the post literacy
activities through continued
education programme
5. Repair, Reconstruction and Maintenance of
existing
Infrastructures:
Child
friendly
infrastructures play a vital role in improving the
quality of education. The work on the
reconstruction of schools built in the sixties and
eighties is undertaken every year to ensure that
those schools that require work are made child
friendly. New ideas are being used to assist in the
construction of new infrastructures, for example
new blackboards are now being fixed on both sides
of a class room, instead of just one.
Strategic Objective Number 1
Increased opportunities for access
to primary education
Strategic Objective Number 2
Improve the quality of primary
education.
Strategic Objective Number 4
Increase enrolment, school
attendance and primary education
cycle completion rates of the
students of poor families
Strategic Objective Number 3
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Priority Spending Areas/Programmes
6. Teachers Recruitment: It is important to keep the
student-teacher ratio at an appropriate level (1:30)
to improve the quality of education. Presently the
ratio is 1:54. Adequate numbers of teachers are
recruited each year to reduce this ratio.
Related Strategic Objectives
Ensure equality and equity in the
field of primary education
Strategic Objective Number 1
Increased opportunities for access
to primary education
Strategic Objective Number 2
Improve the quality of primary
education.
5.
Functions, Key Activities and Outputs of the Departments/
Agencies under the Ministry
5.1
Directorate of Primary Education
5.1.1 Functions
Increased opportunities for access to primary education
Recent Achievements: During the last three years, through the
implementation of development programmes aimed at improving the
educational environment, the net enrolment rate has increased to 87.20%, and
gross enrolment has increased to 93.70%, the teacher-student ratio is now
1:54, the student attendance rate rose to 77.00% and the number of contact
hours rose to 840 hrs. In addition, through various training development
programmes, 72.00% of the total number of teachers has been provided with Cin-Ed training, 18 types of supplementary reading materials have been
distributed and training has been provided to 60,000 members of School
Managing Committees.
Future Plans: To ensure universal primary education by 2015 and guarantee
quality primary education, it has been planned to raise the number of contact
hours to 923 hrs by 2011, the net enrolment rate to 92.00%, achieve teacherstudent ratio of 1:46, increasing the C-in-Ed qualified teachers’ rate to 90.00%,
and to improve students’ competency rate to 65.00% and attendance rate to
80.00%.
5.1.2 Key Activities and Outputs
Key Activities
Output Related to the Activity
Related Strategic
Objectives
1
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Reconstruction
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Reconstruction of 6,397 and
expansion of 10,000 schools
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Provision of toilets
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Establishment of 33,808 new
toilets and sinking 16,397 tube
wells
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Repair and maintenance
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Repair and maintenance of
25,000 schools on average per
annum
Approved Projects
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Key Activities
Output Related to the Activity
Related Strategic
Objectives
1. Primary Education Development Project-2
2. Repair and reconstruction of Government Primary Schools (phase 2)
3. Development of Registered Primary Schools Project ( 3rd phase)
4. Construction of Government Primary Schools-IDB assisted project
Unapproved Projects
1. Construction of boundary walls for selected Government Primary Schools
2. 3rd Primary Education Development Programme
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Stipend payments
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Providing stipends to 5,500,
000 students
1,3,7
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Providing education
allowances and
implementation of school
feeding programmes for the
underprivileged and dropout
students
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Providing seven lakh students
with 75 grams of biscuits
everyday through the school
feeding programme to raise
their nutrition level
1,3,7
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Providing education
allowances and grants for
underprivileged children and
dropout students
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Providing education allowance
and grants to 5,00,000 poor and
underprivileged children
Approved Projects
1. Stipend for Primary Education
2. Reaching out of school children project
Unapproved Project
1. Stipend for primary education (2nd phase)
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Supply of text books free of
cost and in a timely manner
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Supply of approximately six
crore text books free of cost on
average, per annum
1
Approved Projects
1. Primary Education Development Programme-2
Unapproved Projects
1. 3rd Primary Education Development Programme
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Appointment of required
number of teachers
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Appointment of 35,000 teachers
under PEDP-2
Appointment of 5,000 teachers
on average, per annum through
the revenue budget
2
Approved Projects
1. Primary Education Development Programme-2
Unapproved Project
1. 3rd Primary Education Development Programme
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Modification/revision of
curriculum
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Modify/revise all curriculum to
ensure that they are up to date
2, 3
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Supply of six crore text books
2
Operational Unit
Directorate of Primary Education
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Supply of teaching aids
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Key Activities
- Bag
- Teachers guide
- Box
-Supplementary reading
materials
Output Related to the Activity
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Related Strategic
Objectives
on average, per annum
Supply of various teaching aids
to 1.62 crore pupils
Distribution of 16
supplementary reading
materials
Approved Project
1. Primary Education Development Programme - 2
Unapproved Project
1. 3rd Primary Education Development Programme
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Construction of child friendly
infrastructure
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Reconstruction of 6,397 and
expansion of 10,000 school
buildings
4
Approved Project
1. Second Primary Education Development Programme
Unapproved Project
1. 3rd Primary Education Development Programme
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Arrange separate toilets for girl
students
Appoint female teachers
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Arrange 33, 808 toilets for girls
Appoint 15, 600 female
teachers
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Approved Projects
1. Primary Education Development Programme-2
2. Reconstruction and repair of Government Primary Schools (2nd phase)
3. Development of Registered Primary Schools
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C-in-Ed Training
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By 2011, 90.00% of the
teachers i.e., approximately
194,000 teachers will have
benefited from C-in-Ed training
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Subject-based training
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Provide subject-based training
in five subjects to 1,24,000
teachers(two teachers from
each of 62,000 schools)
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Basic training
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Provide training to 186,000
members of the School
Managing Committees
Approved Project
1. Primary Education Development Programme-2
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6.
Key Performance Indicators
Indicators
Unit
of
Measurement
Contact
hour(average)
Teacher-Pupil
ratio
Net enrolment
rate
C-in-Ed trained
teachers’ rate
Students
learning
competency
Attendance
rate
Non-formal
education
programme
(neo-literate)
Stipend
High protein
biscuit
distribution
Admission rate
in high school
from primary
Repair and
renovation
Reconstruction
Subject based
training
Actual
Targets
Revised
Targets
Medium Term Targets
Hour
2006-07
750
2007-08
898
2006-07
898
2008-09
923
2009-10
923
2010-11
923
Ratio
1 54
1 50
1 50
1 46
1 46
1 46
%
87.20
88.00
88.00
90.00
91.00
92.00
%
71.90
85.00
85.00
88.00
89.00
90.00
%
45.00
55.00
55.00
65.00
65.00
65.00
%
77.00
78.00
78.00
80.00
80.00
80.00
Person
5 lakh
9 lakh
9 lakh
9 lakh
9 lakh
12 lakh
Person
55
lakh
5 lakh
55
lakh
5 lakh
60 lakh
60 lakh
60 lakh
Person
55
lakh
5 lakh
7 lakh
7 lakh
8 lakh
%
83.30
84.00
84.00
85.00
86.00
87.00
Number
20,000
20,000
20,000
20,000
20,000
20,000
Number
Person
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12,220
-
12,220
-
8,000
72,000
6,000
40,000
2397
30,000