Dhaka: Dissolution of a committee to look into the revision and enchancment of textbooks – inside a fortnight of its formation by the interim govt in Bangladesh – has evoked criticism, with Transparency Worldwide Bangladesh (TIB) describing it a “worrisome precedent of compromise” with radicals by the govt..
Whereas the 10-member committee was fashioned on Sept 15 to “correctly full and coordinate the actions of revising and enhancing all textbooks developed and printed by Nationwide Curriculum and Textbook Board,” its dissolution was introduced Saturday.
The Bangladesh department of the Berlin-based Transparency Worldwide, a civil society group devoted to preventing corruption, expressed concern that the choice contradicts the imaginative and prescient of a non-discriminatory ‘New Bangladesh‘ and its non-communal spirit.
In a press release, TIB govt director Iftekharuzzaman mentioned, “In response to the multi-dimensional and unprecedented human rights violations by the authoritarian govt, and the sacrifice of 1000’s of martyrs, college students have paved the best way for the creation of a ‘New Bangladesh’ – a nation dedicated to the peaceable coexistence and equal rights of all.” He mentioned this ‘New Bangladesh’ will probably be non-discriminatory, non-sectarian, clear, accountable, and well-governed, the place no non secular or ideological doctrine will probably be imposed on anybody. “Nevertheless, we’re alarmed by efforts to unfold malice, hatred, and hostility in opposition to non-communal spirit and pluralism, that are gaining momentum,” he mentioned, including interim govt is compromising by succumbing to propaganda and threats posed by self-interested factions.
