No tube-well in 83 schools, 62 without toilets

Lack of tube-wells for safe drinking water in 83 primary schools out of 192 in Sadullapur upazila of the district is causing immense sufferings to hundreds of kids and staffs for long.

Besides, 62 primary schools in the same area are running without toilets for over five years, said Upazila Primary Education Officer Golam Mostafa.

Due to the situation, the children have to run to either croplands or bamboo grove at the call of nature, he said.

Headmaster of Salipur Government Primary School Saiful Islam said a tube-well was installed on the school premises five years ago but miscreants stole the top of the tube-well and since then, the students are suffering from serious crisis of pure drinking water.

Despite repeated pleas, the authorities concerned are yet to take any steps to install tube-well to mitigate suffering of the kids, said Rajib Lochan Badol, headmaster of Habibullapur Government Primary School.

Chairman of the upazila parishad Saidur Rahman, president of upazila primary education committee in Sadullapur, said the matter will be placed in the next parishad meeting to provide the schools with tube-wells and toilets.