Religious Affairs Minister Md Fardiul Haque Khan has said that the temple-based student and mass education programmes will play an important role in the developed Bangladesh of 2041.
He said that the initiative will lead to the development of skilled people with good human values.
The minister made these comments in a keynote address at the National Conference-2021 titled "Temple-Based Children and Mass Education Program in Building Communal Harmony in Improved Bangladesh" in an online workshop from the conference room at the Ministry of Religious Affairs on Friday.
According to the minister, the ministry and its subordinate departments are committed to building a non-communal society with religious values by promoting religious values and morality.
The minister shared that the project is being implemented in 5,800 pre-primary, 400 Gita classes and 250 adult level training centers using 6,450 temples across the country.
Every year, 192250 students are being benefited with non-formal education with rich and humane values. This has aroused a promising response from the Hindu community.
The minister further said that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was the first to take up the project during her 1996-2001 period. The aim was to establish Bangladesh as a liberal, religious, progressive, democratic and harmoniously developed country.
The discussion was chaired by Project Director (Additional Secretary) Ranjit Kumar Das. The workshop was themed the 5th phase of temple based children and mass education programmes.
Subrata Pal, Vice-Chairman of the Hindu Religious Welfare Trust, Trustee Dr. Pran Gopal Dutt, Shyamal Sarkar, Trustee Rakhe Rani Guna, Additional Secretary (Development) in the Ministry of Religious Affairs Md. Abdul Awal Hawlader, Dalip Kumar Ghosh and others were present at the discussion.
Members of the Steering and Implementation Committee, participants in the temple-based child and mass education project, staff members, parents, and students all tuned in online for the workshop.
