Over 120,000 children of 26 upazilas in three districts in Chattogram Hill Tracks (CHT) will be given pre-primary education for free in order to get them enrolled into primary education.
"The children living in 5,000 remote localities under the 26 upazilas of CHT will be given pre-primary education to ensure their enrollment for primary education," said an official of CHT affairs ministry.
Later, a number of those children would be given technical and stipend-based education alongside the regular curriculum, he added while speaking to state- owned BSS agency.
To this end, the government has launched "Sustainable Social Services for CHT" project involving Tk 4.17 billion which is scheduled to be implemented by June, 2021, said the official.
The project will cover 5,000 localities of 26 upazilas in Rangamati, Khagrachhari and Bandarban districts of CHT.
Apart from the pre-primary education, locality based network will be established in the remote areas to ensure the availability of basic social services to the children and their families.
Moreover, awareness building campaigns will be run among 206,000 families under the project to decrease the malnutrition of children, girls and women as well as strengthen community efficiency.
The main activities of the project are to construct 1,025 locality centres, run maintenance work in 4,000 locality centres and three training centres.
Besides, health services, nutrition, water, sewerage and hygiene maintenance along with education activities will be carried over under the project.
