often lack the force to be implemented in certain level. The Concern entity sometimes discarded
of not, ignore certain aspects of that on the contention of being too ambitious. Therefore, a
definite legislative framework is necessary for realization of rights of the people. Therefore,
since the declaration of education policy in 2010, the people of the country were expecting that a
fresh legislation will also be in place according to the new education policy, which would
basically aim to implement the policy promises and will provide a system of rules to be passed
by the government that would be obeyed by all. In order to ensure that, in 2011, a twenty
member education law drafting committee was formed by the government. Later in 2012 a nine
member working committee was also declared to prepare the draft of the law. 58 Finally, the draft
Education Act 2013 has been shared on the education ministry website in order to get feedback
from the people on the draft. It has been suggested in the draft law that compulsory primary
education will be up to Class VIII from Class I and Bangla, English, mathematics, religious
instruction, moral education, Bangladesh studies, information technology, science, and
introduction to environment will be made compulsory in general schools, madrasas and
kindergartens.59 Amongst the many dimension of the Draft education Act, the effort to unify the
different streams of education into one course can be considered as the core provision. However,
the framework set for the unification apparently same as the policy suggested. Therefore, the
draft Act also projected the unification through adding up analogous subjects for all streams
instead of developing a common standard for the students of all educational streams.
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Khandaker Lutful Khaled, ‘How far the Draft Education Law 2013 is inclined to protect citizen’s right to
education’ (Action aid, Dhaka 2013 )1 <http://www.actionaid.org/bangladesh/publications/how-far-draft-education-law2013-inclined-protect-citizens-right-education>
Oli Md. Abdullah Chowdhury, ‘Right to education: Still not ensured’ The Daily Star (Dhaka 3 September 2013)
<http://archive.thedailystar.net/beta2/news/right-to-education-still-not-ensured/> accessed 5 June 2014
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