Monitoring committees start visiting schools, colleges

Staff Reporter :
The Education Ministry has formed monitoring committees to prevent charging of extra admission and readmission fees in schools and colleges across the country.
Four monitoring committees each led by a deputy secretary on Wednesday visited a number of educational institutions to check whether the school and colleges are taking admission fees, development fees and others for 2023 session as per the admission policy of the ministry, said a media release of the Education Ministry signed by its Public Relations Officer M Abul Khayer. Besides, 16 monitoring committees formed by the Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education, eight divisional committees in Dhaka Metropolitan area, 55 district monitoring committees and upazila monitoring committees are also visiting educational institutions to check if there is any violation of the government policy.
Steps will be taken against those concerned if irregularities are found, it said.