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UNB, Dhaka

The government has taken an initiative to make and enforce a law within two months to prevent sexual harassment and repression in all educational institutions across the country.

The University Grants Commission (UGC) has started formulating the new law in this regard, said an Education Ministry announcement yesterday, in the wake of a number of such reported incidents.

"The government is closely observing the situation arising in Jahangirnagar University (JU) out the allegation of sexual harassment on female students. Such a situation can badly tarnish the image of the educational institution alongside casting a negative impact on the overall educational system," it said.

Referring to public universities like JU, run by own rules and regulations, the ministry said, "The government believes that it is possible to resolve such allegations administratively with the own rules of the respective university."

The government will soon sit with the JU syndicate members and UGC for exchange of views for framing policy guidelines in this regard.