2.5.6 The National National Education Policy 201051 The NEP 2010 is a follow up and improved version of the Education Policy 2000.52 This policy has brought some fundamental changes in restructuring the whole educational system: the first is attending a one-year pre- primary school compulsory for the children of 5+ years and prohibited the admission test in class 1. 53 The second major reform appears to be extending Primary education to Class 8 instead of class 5 by 2018. 54 This is done in view of making it easier to continue the education of children from the poor households.55 This Policy also puts a bar on any individual or any NGO willing to run primary education institutions by making permission of the respective authority necessary.56 The NEP makes it a vital point that all the Streams must study some common compulsory subjects.57 It also brings important changes in respect of examination system and public examination. 2.5. 2.5.6 5.6.1 The NEP in addressing the Diverse Streams: In regards with re-integrating the diverse streams, the NEP attempts to make a very big change by amalgamating the course curricula. Before the NEP 2010, the madrasa students had their own separate curricula and the secular topics received very poor, if at all, importance. The books on these subjects contained very information in comparison to the books prescribed by the Board, and the question papers for the public examinations also varied to a great, creating different standards for the same level students. Under the NEP, all the streams will be answering the same questions. 2.6 Proposed Legal Framework under the Draft Education Act, 2013 Despite of certain limitation, The National Education Policy 2010 has vividly manifested the concept of equality and non-discrimination for all streams of education and proposed unification of the curriculum to set common standards for the pupil. Existence of particular framework definitely set standards for the Government to ensure particular right. However, since policies 51 GOB, ‘The National Education Policy’ (Ministry of Education 2010)
m я i , k  я  (Muhammad Jafor Iqbal, ‘An Easy Guide to the National Education Policy’) Daily Prothom Alo ( Dhaka 4 November 2010) <http://www.somewhereinblog.net/blog/rshahriar/29037893> accessed 4 June 2014 GOB, (n 51) 4 ibid, 6 Muhammad Jafor Iqbal (n 52 ) GOB, (n 51) 4 ibid, 6 ibid, 6-7 52 53 54 55 56 56 57 Page | 23