WAYS TO HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IN BANGLADESH OR OTHER DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

1. DEVELOPMENT IN EDUCATION

•  General education should be discouraged while technical and vocational education should be encouraged so that young people can find jobs both within and outside the country; they can also start their own business. However, the current state of technical and vocational education should be assessed in terms of their success in generating self or wage employment. 

•  Students outside major metropolitan cities are in general weak in English; special programmes should be undertaken to promote effective English teaching in the country. 

•  Administration of primary education should be handed over to the local governments. There is no example of running primary education by the central bureaucracy in the world. 

•  Arrangements should be made to impart primary education to indigenous people in their own languages beside Bengali and English. 

•  Researches in science laboratories should be evaluated in terms of their contribution to the

country’s industrial development and future research programmes should be linked to the solution of the country’s specific problems.

•  A Knowledge Council should be established along the lines of India to facilitate creation of a knowledge-based society.

•  More attention should be given to promoting quality education at all levels especially for the 

poor.

•  Demand-based training should be given to cater to the domestic as well as international 

markets. 

2. DEVELOPMENT IN HEALTH

•  Administration of primary healthcare should be handed over to the local governments. 

Community clinics and other health facilities at union level should be made fully operational.

•  Quality of healthcare services should be improved in the rural areas. The private sector should be encouraged alongside with the public sector to offer healthcare in rural areas.

•  Government should regulate public health services so that private practice by public hospitals doctors must not affect the public hospital services.