<i>Villagers build road to education for kids</i>
Villagers give voluntary service to construct a two-kilometre-long paved road at Protima Bonki village in Sakhipur upazila under Tangail district as locals have taken the initiative to ease communication, especially for the school children, ahead of the rainy season. Photo: STAR
People of Protima Bonki village in Sakhipur upazila of Tangail district are constructing a brick-built road at their own initiative to ease communication, especially for hundreds of school going students. The two-kilometre dirt road from Protima Bonki Chourasta Bazar to Ekota High School has remained in a deplorable condition for long, making it unfit for use even after a moderate rain. Keeping in mind the situation to be faced during the coming rainy season, the villagers recently took decision to construct a brick-built road there. "We suffer a lot during the rainy season as we have to walk on the muddy road to go to school. Now we hope to attend school with clean uniform and shoes when the work for the paved road completes,” said Mina Akter, a class VIII student of Ekota High School. Local Dreamland Club has taken the initiative to construct a paved road here to mitigate sufferings of local people including school students during the wet season, said Mohammad Zafar Iqbal, headmaster of Ekota High School. The villagers are bearing all costs for the road and meantime, they have collected construction materials including bricks and sand to build one kilometre of the road, he added. During a visit to the area on Sunday, this correspondent saw that many villagers were giving voluntary service for the road construction in a happy mood. "It is a different kind of joy to construct a road with our own money and labour. We the villagers are helping the road construction work according to our ability,” said Julhas Uddin of the village. Sakhipur upazila Chairman Shawkat Sikder and Sakhipur municipality Mayor Abu Hanif Azad have visited the road construction work and assured the villagers of extending help to complete the work.
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