The Total Literacy Movement, which was founded in 1996 was dissolved in 2003, had parts of its functions absorbed into the Bureau. Unlike formal education where learning is timed and scheduled, informal. Examples include after-school organizations, non-credit education courses, seminars, and conferences. The Directorate of Non-Formal Education was dissolved in 2005 and replaced with the Bureau of Non-Formal Education. Non-formal learning doesn’t always have the structure of formal education but isn’t as spontaneous as informal education. The Directorate was placed in charge of Non-Formal Education programs providing services to 34.4 million illiterate people in Bangladesh. It has got no age limit for the individuals. These two collateral sometimes blurring forms of learning, informal learning and non-formal education, provide the basis for that critically important and enduring attitude: the desire to go on learning. Most of the education given here is conversational and practical. non-formal educational practices and non-formal education needs to be a de facto partner in the lifelong process and accessible for all. Non-formal education has got an adjustable timetable and syllabus. It is not related to the study given at school premises.
The Directorate of Non-Formal Education was under the Primary and Mass Education Division which was established in August 1992. Non-Formal Education system includes: This type is a planned mode of education. The Bureau of Non-Formal Education traces its origin to the Directorate of Non-Formal Education. The Director General of Bureau of Non-Formal Education is Tapan Kumar Ghosh. This called for new approaches to formal education it also gave considerable impetus to non-formal education, and especially to basic education for. The Bureau is located in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Bureau of Non-Formal Education is a government bureau responsible for providing jobs, education, and opportunities to individuals who have not received formal education. Non-formal learning takes place outside formal learning environments but within some kind of organisational framework.