Ameer of Islami Andolan Bangaldesh (IAB) and Pirsaheb Charmonai Mufti Syed Rezaul Karim said that if the proposed education policy was implemented, the religious education would be abolished from the country and as a result the Holy Quran would be kept in the museum for displaying and the mosques and madrasas will be turned into tourism centres.
The proposed education policy, if implemented, will increase unemployment, counter to the government's pledge to create more jobs, opposition leader Khaleda Zia has warned. "This government that promised to create employment for every household now threatens to generate greater unemployment in the country through its education policy," the BNP chairperson said on Monday.
A pro-opposition teachers' platform on Tuesday asked the government to scrap a proposed education policy, saying it will affect Islamic values and cause job losses to around 350,000 teachers. The BNP-backed Shikkhok Karmachari Oikyo Jote at a news conference also vowed to prevent the new education policy from being implemented 'at any cost'.
