<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><b>Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday asked the authorities concerned to find out the reasons as to why boys are declining in number and lagging behind girls in their academic results.</b></span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">“We’ve to find out the reasons as to why the boys are fewer in numbers,” she said while publishing the results of Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent examinations- 2024 on Sunday morning.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The premier unveiled the results online through pressing a button at a ceremony at her official residence Ganabhaban. Earlier, Education Minister Mohibul Hassan Chowdhoury handed over the results summary and statistics to the premier.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">She said the total number of candidates is 20,38,150 under 11 education boards this year. Among them, the number of boys is 9,99,364, while that of girls is 10,38,786.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The PM said it needs to take initiative now for unearthing the causes that boys are declining in number.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“In case of the pass percentage, the girls are ahead of boys. It is fine. Even then I would like to say that we’ve to pay attention to it,” she said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Hasina said her government distributes free textbooks in time, provides stipends and scholarships till the higher education and transformed the country into Digital Bangladesh, reports UNB</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The prime minister also asked Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) and education boards to look into the matter and find the reason as to why the number of students is reducing. “The number of boys is not supposed to go down. It should be equal (to that of girls),” she added.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">PM Hasina asked all to find the reasons why children are getting engaged in teenage gang and bring them back to a healthy environment.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“In the recent times, we hear about teen gangs. It's not acceptable. Why boys and girls would go this way?,” she said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The children in their teens should pursue study and join other positive activities, said the prime minister.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“But we’ve to find out why they go this way. We’ll have to prevent them from it and bring them back to a healthy atmosphere,” she added.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">bnbd/fas</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div>