Realtors provide jobs for many
An HSC examinee Zahidul Islam, 18, has been working as a painter assistant since 2009, in high-rise building projects in Bogra town. He started earning when his father became unable to give exam fees for his Dakhil exams due to a loss in his vegetable business.
The fast-flourishing real estate and commercial building construction projects in Bogra gave him the chance to continue his studies, said Islam.
A student of Bogra Azizul Haque Collage, Islam got a good result in his Dakhil exams under Bangladesh Madrasah Education Board in 2009. Now he is expecting a better result in HSC. “I will continue my studies with my own earnings.”
He is grateful to his neighbour Putu Sarker who arranged a job for him at Tk 70 a day before the Dakhil exams. Now he gets Tk 100 a day, Islam said.
Housewife Bina Begum, 25, works in Roop Katha Housing Project at Tk 250 a day. “I had to start working a month ago as a day labourer to meet up the educational expenses of my kids,” she added. Her husband Shapon Molla, 27, cannot run the family with his small income as a transport worker, she added.
Shabana Begum, 25, said her husband Md Aminul Islam is physically unfit to do any kind of work that forced her to be a day labourer in a housing project at Tk 250 per day three years ago. She spends most of her earnings for the treatment of her husband.
Md Delwar Hossain, a construction worker, earns Tk 4,000 a month. Earlier, he used to earn Tk 1,000 a month as an agriculture labourer at village Dhoroanjoy under Bogra sadar upazila.
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