State minister for primary and mass education Md Zakir Hossain speaks at a press conference at the ministry on Sunday. - New Age photo

No examinations would be held this year if the primary schools could not be reopened, primary and mass education senior secretary Akram-Al-Hossain said on Sunday.

‘We can decide on evaluation when schools reopen. Before that we cannot do anything,’ he said.

The secretary was speaking at a press conference held at the primary and mass education ministry in the secretariat.

At the conference, state minister for primary and mass education Md Zakir Hossain said that they would reopen schools following the opinion of the government, the health ministry and World Health Organisation.

‘We don’t want to take children to school before the coronavirus situation improves,’ he added.
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  Akram-Al-Hossain said that they had two plans for the students if the schools reopen in October or in November.

Replying a question, he said that the prime minister Sheikh Hasina said that if the schools could not be opened then the examinations would not be held also.

‘We’re also saying the same thing,’ he said.

He mentioned that he was a class VI student in 1971 and since March that year all schools were closed.

In 1972 all of them got enrolled in class VII without evaluation, he continued.

‘Many kindergartens are on the verge of closing for financial crisis,’ the secretary noted, and added that they had already asked the concerned officials to bring the students of the KG schools under the primary schools at each area if the KG schools start to close down.