Bangabandhu calls for mass education

MARCH 30, 1972

BANGABANDHU'S ADDRESS TO INTELLECTUALS

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman today emphasises the need for mass education in the country. He observes that without mass education, economic problems cannot be solved effectively, nor can socialism be implemented. Addressing intellectuals at the government house in Chittagong, the prime minister says that an education commission is being set up with educationists and scientists. He further says there is no scope for differences regarding the need for a people-oriented education system. He observes that our education system has so long failed to produce men. The existing education system can only produce bureaucrats, he regrets.

Speaking on the need to carry the light of education to the masses, Bangabandhu says that teachers and students should spend some time in villages every year and work for to spread education among the rural people.

FORM OF GOVERNMENT WILL BE PARLIAMENTARY: CONSTITUTION

The Constitution of Bangladesh will provide the country a parliamentary form of government, enshrining all the basic principles of democracy, socialism, nationalism and secularism, the Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs Dr Kamal Hussain says today. He adds that the draft constitution will adequately include all the ramifications of democracy and guarantee the fundamental rights and privileges of the people irrespective of cast and religion. The Law Minister informs that the working draft of the Constitution, which is under the process of finalization, will be placed for approval before the session of the Constituent Assembly when it meets on April 10.  

CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY TO HONOUR BANGABANDHU

The Calcutta University Senate has decided to confer an honorary D Litt. degree on Bangabandhu. Justice Ramaprasad Mukherjee raised the proposal in the Senate's meeting and it was unanimously adopted.

85 PERCENT INDUSTRIES UNDER NATIONALISATION

The nationalisation programme launched by the government will cover over 85 percent of the total capital and fixed assets in the whole of the country's industrial sector, says the Planning Commission. Explaining the working of the organisational structure for the nationalised industries, the Planning Commission source says that there will be one corporation for each of the industries such as jute, sugar and cotton. Each industrial unit will again have its own management board or board of directors to plan and execute its production and other programmes. The boards will consist of representatives of workers, financing institutions and members with management experience.

BANGLADESH NOT 'PURBA PAKISTAN'

The director of public instruction, West Bengal has requested all heads of institutions in West Bengal to instruct teachers and students to henceforth read Bangladesh and Pakistan in place of Purba Pakistan and Paschim Pakistan in textbooks.

SOURCES: March 31, 1972 issues of Ittefaq, The Bangladesh Observer, Azad, Morning News, Dainik Bangla and Purbodesh.