Dhaka, Nov. 21 -- A total of 4,045 government and private schools in the country will admit new students through a central lottery in the new academic year.

This time, 686 government secondary schools across the country and 3,359 private schools in metropolitan and district Upazila Sadar areas are going to participate in the centralised admission process.

More than 1.188 million seats are available at these educational institutions for the new academic year.

Students from Class I to IX can submit applications for government schools and private schools in metropolitan as well as district and Upazila Sadar areas from Friday.

However, not all private schools in these areas have finalised their participation in the central lottery.

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