Dhaka, March 11 -- Teachers will no longer be able to give any sort of private lessons to students in classrooms of government primary schools.

The Directorate of Primary Education on Tuesday issued a directive instructing school administrations to stop all sorts of coaching, private tuition and other activities outside the school curriculum.

Mentioning that the directive would take "immediate effect", it pointed out that deviation from the instruction would cause "those in charge to be held accountable".

The decision follows the report of rape of a fifth grader who allegedly went to a government primary school for private lessons in Thakurgaon.

On Tuesday, Md Raihul Islam, assistant director of the directorate's Policy and Operation ...