Dilapidated School Building
Students attend classes under open sky
Students of Uttar Saralia Gausal Haq Government Primary School in Morrelganj upazila under Bagerhat district attend classes under the open sky as the schoolhouse has turned too risky. Photo: STAR
Students of Gausul Huq Government Primary School in Morrelganj upazila of Bagerhat district have been attending their classes under open sky for the last two years as the dilapidated school building has become risky for them. Acting headmistress Dilara Afroze said there are 142 students reading in the school established in 1924 in Saralia Union. “We cannot use the classrooms as the building seems to be too risky,” she said, adding that Hamid Sheikh, a class two student, was severely injured when a chunk of plaster of a wall suddenly fell on him on November 29 in 2009. The boy had to discontinue his education as he sustained fatal injuries in the head and shoulder, the headmistress said. Contacted, acting upazila education officer Afroza Khanam said they wrote to the authorities concerned several times, seeking fund for repairing works, but to no effect.
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