Child parliament leaders meet Daily Star editor
The committee sought his opinion on various information that the members of child parliament collected from 64 districts of the country to ensure quality education and healthcare services.
The child leaders requested him to give in The Daily Star an extensive coverage of the issues to be raised in child parliament.
"If you want to do some thing to achieve the rights of children, I am ready to help you," Mahfuz Anam assured them.
About the development of children with disabilities and their admission to general schools he said newspapers have many things to do in this regard.
Led by the Speaker of National Child Parliament Shafiqul Islam Talukder, the 15-member delegation told Mahfuz Anam that an action paper will be prepared after consultations with 20 eminent personalities including economists, researchers, educationists, journalists, ministers and top bureaucrats.
Save the Children Australia, Plan Bangladesh and AED are providing technical and financial assistance for holding the National Child Parliament Session 2006.