Erosion-hit students attend classes under open sky
Students of Saheber Char Government Primary School in Kishoreganj have been continuing their classes under the open sky since July 18 as erosion by the river Brahmaputra devoured the schoolhouse on July 17.
The school has some 227 students at present but it sees poor attendance due to bad weather, said Headmaster Sumon Ranjan Sarker.
Due to the situation, especially the Class V students are suffering a lot as their model test examination gets underway, he said.
“We have to take classes at the courtyards of local people, but when rain comes, we have to shift the students to the corridors,” said the headmaster.
The school established in 1937 was also devoured by Brahmaputra erosion earlier and then the institution was shifted to its present position in 1999, he said.
Students and their guardians demanded a new school building soon.
Sidhla Union Parishad Chairman Md Siraj Uddin said due to severe erosion by Old Brahmaputra river in Saheber Char area in last 10 years, some 400 families lost their homesteads and cropland.
Md Sadequr Rahman, assistant upazila primary education officer, said they have taken initiative to build a makeshift schoolhouse to continue classes.
Hossainpur Upazila Nirbahi Officer Abullah Al Mamun said the administration has already allocated six bundles of corrugated iron sheets and Tk 4000 in cash on an emergency basis for making a schoolhouse soon.
The schoolteachers expected that the building of the school house will be completed by this week.
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