Textile university in city soon: Nahid

Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid yesterday said Tejgaon Textile College will be turned into a university soon.
He said the bill of the university would be placed in the first week of next session of the parliament, which will start on September 20.
The Cabinet and Parliamentary Standing Committee on Ministry of Education have already approved the bill, Nahid said.
He said this while he was talking to the journalists after visiting the online admission test at the city's Agargaon Women Polytechnic Institute.
About 70,000 workers is working in our garment Industries, the education minister said, adding that the government has decided to turn the Textile College into university to fulfill the demand of skill workers.
Nahid said the technical education institutions of the country were neglected for long time. In this regard the present government is working to change the situation, he added.
The construction work of 25, including four women polytechnic institutions, has already started, he said.
The government also decided to establish technical schools at every upazila of the country, Nahid said.
About the first ever online admission test in the country, the education minister said, the government has taken the initiative to ease examination process and assure utilisation of technology in every sector.
Nahid said the all education institutions would come under the technology to reduce extortion and politicisation in the admission test.
National University will open six branches at six divisions for the students, he added.