‘International Literacy Day is being celebrated all over the world with the theme of ’Literacy for Human-Centric Restoration: Bringing Digital Divided Commissions'.
Today Wednesday (September 8) on the occasion of Literacy Day, President Md. Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina have given separate messages. In his message, the President has given proper education to the country's large working population. In his speech, the Prime Minister said in his speech that the Awami League government is implementing multifaceted programs to improve the quality of life of the illiterate population of the country by turning it into skilled human resources and reaching the desired goal of development.
In this year, the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education has taken up various programs on the occasion of the day in Bangladesh to keep pace with the world. Zakir Hossain. The speech of the Director General of UNESCO will be presented in the event presided over by the Secretary of the concerned Ministry.
Earlier on Monday (September 6), the Minister of State for Primary and Mass Education said in a press conference that according to the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) data, the literacy rate in the country is 74.7 percent as per 2019 and according to the data of 2020. Now the literacy rate is 75.6 percent.
As a result, even though there is no activity in the past year, the literacy rate has dropped to 90.90 percent. The education system has been closed for 17 months due to the coronavirus pandemic. There was no class activity, and because of this, the students are backward, and the concerned people have feared the dropout of many students, but the government data says that the rate of Corona is being literacy has increased in the last one year. Although there is no activity at the Bureau of the Bureau, the literacy rate is out of the way, but many are raising questions about this poison.
