<i>Human chain in flood water</i>
Students of a school in Tala upazila yesterday formed a human chain in the flood water in front of their school demanding steps to remove waterlogging and resumption of academic activities.
The school remained submerged since rain water and waters from silted Kabodak and Batna rivers entered the areas overflowing their banks on August 2.
Academic activities of over 400 students of Bangabandhu Peshabhittik High School are being hampered due to the waterlogging, said headmistress Laila Parvin Sejuti .
Due to the closure, the students of the school cannot make them prepare for the ensuing JSC examination, SSC examination and school final examinations, said Animesh Sarkar, a class ten student of the school.
The other students said they cannot study properly as they have been residing with their parents at makeshift huts on Khulna-Satkhira road as their houses collapsed due to the flood.
Study of over 1,00,000 students in flood affected Tala upazila, is being hampered as 48 educational institutions are still waterlogged, officials said.
Besides this, 45 primary schools, 20 high schools, 10 madrasas and three colleges have been made temporary shelter for the homeless people, they said.
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