Dhaka, Aug. 14 -- The leaders of the Bangladesh Kindergarten Association Sylhet district have demanded that kindergarten and private primary school students be given the opportunity to participate in the 2025 government primary scholarship exam. They made this demand at a press conference at the Sylhet Press Club on Tuesday.

At the press conference, the teacher leaders said that they have come to know about a circular issued by the Department of Primary Education on July 17 that deprived kindergarten and private primary school students of the opportunity to participate in the scholarship exam. Terming this circular as discriminatory, they said that depriving a large number of vulnerable children from the opportunity to participate in the s...