DHAKA: While announcing that the non-government teachers would get their salary and bonus before Eid-ul-Fitr, Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid Wednesday called for all concerned to keep away from corruption and build a clean image of the sector.     

“We have taken necessary initiative to disburse salary of the MPO-listed teachers within the first week of September," he said at a discussion in the city, adding that bonus would be given before the Eid to avert previous bitter experiences.

The minister urged the government officials, teachers and authorities concerned with the education sectors to be free from corruption.

He asked the corrupt in the sector to quit their posts. "I don’t see that the education sector is corrupt," he said.  

“We have to work unitedly to build a corruption-and poverty-free Bangladesh,” he told his audience at the meet, organized by the Directorate of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education marking the National Mourning Day. Director-General of the Directorate Professor Noman-ur-Rashid presided over the function at the Education Bhaban.

The minister asked all in the sector to play vital role in developing moral values in the new generation to build up poverty-and illiteracy-free Bangladesh as cherished by Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

He alleged that the defeated force in the liberation war killed Bangabandhu to deviate Bangladesh from the sprit of the war.

Education Secretary Syed Ataur Rahman, Fahima Khatun, Chairman of the Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board, Dhaka, and Shamsur Rahman, Director-General of the National Academy for Education Management, among others, also spoke.

BDST: 1936 HRS, AUGUST 25, 2010.