Education: Though the substantial progress has been made in primary school enrollment rate from about 73.3 percent in 1992 to 86.6 percent in 2001. Also, the primary school completion rate increased from 62 percent in 1994 to 65 percent in 2001. This improvement was mainly caused by various government policies and programs like compulsory free primary education, massive stipend programs at primary school level, and the Food for education program as well as due to increase in the government budgetary allocation for the girls education. Despite of this progress, ensuring quality primary education for all children still remains a great challenge as the issues such as access and equity are yet to be effectively addressed the problems. In spite of government's initiatives to promote equity and the access to primary education for underprivileged children, some 2.4 million children aged 6-10 year old children are still not enrolled in primary schools. High drop-out rates among children from poorer households are mainly attributed to the failure of the system and target as well to keep children in school and the parents inability to bear the indirect and opportunity costs involved with child's education. Among drop-outs, a large number of children involved in the existing child workers and entered in the job market. It needs add here that according to a study conducted by 10 NGOs, with the funding of Commonwealth Education. The dropout rate has increased from 33 percent in 2002 to 47 percent in 2006. Moreover, the net enrollment of 6 to 10 year of old declined to 93 percent in 2005 from 97 percent in 2002.
Despite an the overall increase in the population’s well-being, Bangladesh’s public services are mainly failing improve the poverty level of the poor people of the country. Nearly half of all children don’t complete primary school level, and those that do haven’t learned enough. Poor pregnant women often can’t get medical care, and more than 12,000 of them die every year due to complications of pregnancy or childbirth. Also, each year a quarter of all children under five fall sick, and 35,000 of them die, from diarrhoea or diarrhoea with pneumonia.
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