<i>Kids study amid chaos of vegetable market</i>
The ground of Sarwarjan Pilot High School in Bamna upazila of Barguna district is used as a vegetable market on two workdays in a week, thanks to the organisers' utter callousness about schooling of the young learners.Photo: STAR
Academic activities of Sarwarjan Pilot High School in Bamna upazila town under Barguna district is badly disturbed as the school playground is used as a vegetable haat (makeshift village market) every Monday and Thursday. "We cannot pay attention to our lessons due to the noise created by sellers and buyers on the haat days. The vegetable selling centre should be shifted from the playground for the sake of our schooling," said Abu Saleh, a student of class ten. Harun-Or-Rashid, acting headmaster of the school, said, "It is really difficult to continue classes during haat days as the atmosphere becomes very noisy. A bazaar should never sit on a school playground." Jasim Uddin Pintu, secretary of bazaar traders association, said, "We are looking for a new place to set up a permanent vegetables market but we are yet to find any land for it." "The matter was discussed on several occasions at the upazila coordination meeting and the upazila administration assured us to shift the bazaar to another place," said Bamna upazila sports association secretary Goutam Roy, also physical education teacher of the school. "There are reserved places for selling fish, meat, rice, cows and goats in the area but we have been using the school playground for long in absence of any fixed place for vegetable sale. We also suffer a lot during the rainy season as the makeshift bazaar sits on the open place," said Abdus Salam, a green vegetable trader. Bamna Upazila Nirbahi Officer Md Alamgir Hossain said, "I joined here recently. Considering the interest of students, I will take step to shift the bazaar from the playground as soon as possible."
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