A small initiative can be of great help to many
A small initiative sometimes can be of great help to many deprived people. With
the setting up of a primary school at Char Parbatipur village under
Sadar upazila of the district, children of the village now have the
opportunity to receive elementary education. Over 1,000 people now
live on the land that emerged from the Brahmaputra River in Jatrapur
union in 2002. But their children have been deprived of education for
want of a school. Funded by Caring and Sharing LSI Fu-Tien
Foundation, a non governmental organisation (NGO) of Thailand, the
school has been built on a 30 decimals of land on February 12 and
formally inaugurated by lawmaker Md Zafar Ali on February 22.
Initially,
100 children have been enrolled at the school. Three of the four
teachers, recruited for the school, will get Tk 6,000 per month while
the other, religious teacher, will receive a monthly salary of Tk 2,500.
Kurigram district information office will coordinate the activities of
the school. The NGO will provide books, school bags, pencils and other materials for the students. Chaired
by District Information Officer Md Nurunnabi Khandoker, the inaugural
function was addressed, among others, by Lawmaker Md Zafar Ali, Sadar
upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Md Mostafizur Rahman, Kurigram Press Club
President Shafi Khan, and Jatrapur Union Parishad Chairman Abdul Gafur.
At least 500 people of Char Parbatipur village were present at the
function held on the school premises.
UP Chairman Abdul Gafur said
as there is no school in seven other char areas of the union, Char
Parbatipur Primary School will help the children of the areas receive
primary education. District Information Officer Md Nurunnabi
Khandoker said a 24-metre-long tin-shade house of the school is being
constructed and the NGO has given Tk 1.25 lakh for this poupose. It will
also give the school Tk 500 per moth as maintenance cost, he added. Lawmaker
Md Zafar Ali in his speech said one more primary school will be set up
in another char village as soon as possible. A secondary
school-cum-cyclone shelter will also be built in the union, he added.
Source: The Daily Star
