Dhaka, May 7 -- The Citizen's Platform for SDGs, Bangladesh on Thursday called on the government to urgently translate its ambitious education pledges into credible budgetary commitments, warning that decades of chronic underfunding, poor project implementation, and weak institutional capacity risk rendering the BNP government's 50-point education agenda largely symbolic.

Presenting a research paper titled "Upcoming Budget and Education: Political Pledges and Citizen's Expectations" at an event in Agargaon, CPD Additional Director (Research) Towfiqul Islam Khan said three broad areas of consensus have emerged in the national discourse: Bangladesh's education system urgently needs course correction; the current government has signalled st...