Prior to the independence of Bangladesh there was only one educational directorate headed by the erstwhile Director of Public Instruction, whose main function was to implement the educational policies of the government in general and supervise the existing few government education institutions. There was no proper education administrative unit of the government to supervise the vast number of non- government education institutions and these were then run by local management. As a result, these education institutions only followed the curriculum and syllabi of the government while all other administrative functions were left to the respective managing committees/governing bodies. Some of these used to get a negligible amount of monetary grants from the government and spent these in their own way. There was practically no arrangement that could enable the government to verify the appropriate expenditure of these grants and as such, the government undertook no responsibility for the income/expenditure of the institutions. Further, there was no uniform pay scale in these non- government institutions. With the exception of a few, pay scales of all private institutions were considerably lower compared to those of the government institutions. This affected the overall performance and academic standard of non-government institutions. This situation worsened after the emergence of Bangladesh when a lot of new schools/colleges/madrashas were established due to over enthusiasm of the public without proper consideration as to their sustainability. Very soon most of the founders lost their interests and the institutions were left on their own. Being deprived of financial help the teachers and other staff of the institutions somehow managed to run the institutions from students' tuition fees and other means. However, at one point, most of the non-government institutions accounting for approximately 95% education of the country were about to cease function from financial crises.