Education for out-of-school children

By Syed Waliullah, Dhaka
15 July 2004, 18:00 PM
The second lead of your daily of July 9 under "Education for-out-of school children" was a thought provoking piece. Your observations and concerns on the subject, in short, cover all that one needs to be aware of. The policy makers, the planners, the implementing agencies and the serious readers got an idea about the issue at hand.

While reading the piece, I thought that the project needs to be kept out of the suited-booted members of the public administration, as much as possible, for it has to be a task oriented programme rather than a paper oriented one. In other words, it means that continuation of an employee in this project should be made exclusively dependent on his/her performance, unlike the rest of the public service programmes. Hence, it has to be run as an NGO project.