i) To bring all children under secondary education,54 ii) To provide quality education, vocational and technical education,55 iii) To increase the level of proficiency in English as a foreign language in the primary and secondary levels,56 iv) To prohibit all forms of physical and mental punishment in educational institutions,57 v) To ensure equal opportunity of higher education for all,58 vi) To take initiatives for raising the quality and standard of education,59 vii) To take steps to make available child friendly books, magazine, and papers to children,60 and viii) To ensure regular attendance of the female children in educational institutions.61 49. The Bangladesh Labour Act 2006 provides that a child who has completed 12 years of age and is engaged in work must not have his or her education disrupted. The working hours of a school-going child should be conveniently arranged so as to allow his/her attendance in school. The Government undertakes to provide special assistance to educate marginalized indigenous children and to establish primary schools both in hilly and flatlands.62 50. The BNHRC takes into consideration that the 2010 UN Human Development Report endorses that in terms of improvements in education, health and inequality, Bangladesh ranks 3rd amongst 178 countries.63 According to Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) 2012-2013 conducted in the major administrative Divisions of Bangladesh,64 literacy rate among young people Bangladesh at national level was 82 per cent.65 As regards school readiness,66 the national ratio was 43. 5 per cent in which 43 per cent were boys and 44 per cent were girls. The survey further showed that the net intake in primary school in Bangladesh was 43.5 per cent in which 32 per cent were boys and girls were 34 per cent.67 54 Ibid, para 6.5.2. Ibid, para 6.5.3. 56 Ibid, para 6.5.5. 57 Ibid, para 6.5.6. 58 Ibid, para 6.5.7. 59 Ibid, para 6.5.8. 60 Ibid, para 6.5.9. 61 Ibid, para 8.3. 62 The Bangladesh Labour Act 2006, Section 44. 63 Ministry of Primary and Mass Education: Main Document, Third Primary Education Development Programme (PEDP3), Directorate of Primary Education, June 2011, p. 43. 64 These Divisions are Barisal, Chittagong, Dhaka, Khulna, Rajshahi, Rangpur, Sylhet. 65 At the Division levels, the highest literacy rate is 86.1 per cent (in Barisal) and the lowest is 78.2 per cent (in Sylhet). 66 The school readiness indicator refers to the percent of children in first grade who attended pre-school during the previous school year. 67 Moreover, the Bangladesh Primary Education Annual Sector Performance Report shows that the net enrolment rate, in other words, the number of children of the official primary school age (6-10 years) enrolled in Grades 1-5 relative to the total population of children aged 6-10 years was calculated to be 98.7per cent (from 95.6per cent in 2010 and 87.2 per cent in 2005). See, Bangladesh Primary Education Annual Sector Performance Report, May 2012, p. 53. 55 20