Students study under open sky as police occupy classrooms
A policeman stands guard at the camp set up at Baniakhali High School in Dumuria upazila of Khulna district, right, students attending a class on the school ground as the police camp has kept occupying three big classrooms of the school for the last seven years.Photo: STAR
Teachers, students and members of managing committee of Baniakhali High School in Dumuria upazila of Khulna district have demanded intervention of the education minister for early shifting of police camp that has occupied three classrooms of the institution for seven years. After a meeting held on last Saturday, school managing committee Chairman Moni Mohan Chakravarty and Headmaster SK Nasir told this correspondent that they will go for movement if the police camp is not removed from the school within the next month. Students and teachers have to suffer much, especially during hot weather, as classes seven, eight and nine are held on the school ground under the open sky. Number of dropouts, particularly among girl students, is gradually increasing as guardians feel embarrassed amid allegations of teasing and taunting remarks from some of the police personnel of the camp, the headmaster said. "Our repeated requests to shift the camp have so far gone unheeded. So, we have no other alternative but to go on movement against presence of police camp at the school building since 2003," said chairman of the managing committee. Number of students has now come down to 478 from earlier 600, showing a rising trend of dropout, he said. When contacted, lawmaker Narayan Chandra Chanda of Khulna-5 (Dumuria-Phultala) constituency said, "A school cannot be used as police camp. I will take up this matter with the education minister and higher authorities of police department." "I am yet go get any written complain from anyone of the school regarding problems due to presence of police camp there. I will play due role to solve the problem if school authorities come in a proper way," said Khulna Police Superintendent Tanvir Hasan Chowdhury. The school that was established in 1966 has nine rooms in two buildings but three big classrooms have been used for the police camp since 2003.
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