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80 schools closed in Gaibandha for flood

Published : Sunday, 7 July, 2024 at 12:00 AM  Count : 128
Our Correspondent
GAIBANDHA, July 6: As many as 80 schools in four upazilas of the district have been closed due to flood caused by incessant rain and hilly water from the upstream of India.

Sources at the Water Development Board (WDB) said, with the rise of water level, the Brahmaputra River was flowing above 87 centimetre of the danger  mark at Fulchharighat point of the district on Saturday at 9am.

Chars along the eastern side of the mighty river and its basins along the  western side in Sundarganj, Sadar, Fulchhari and Saghata upazilas have been flooded, creating untold public sufferings.

So far, about 28, 928 families of these upazilas have been marooned; of them, many affected families have taken shelter on the flood control embankment with their belongings including domestic animals and poultry birds. Their sorrows know no bound!

The schools in the chars of 24 unions in the upazilas are under waist deep water; schools in the river basin areas are surrounded by flood water; flood water also entered school grounds and class rooms; and at present, there is no environment to conduct academic activities.

Taking the matter to cognizance, authorities concerned declared closures of 80 schools in the district including 70 primary schools and 10 secondary schools.

District Education Officer Rokshana Begum and District Primary Education Officer Md Shahidul Islam confirmed this information.

They also suspected, the number of the closed schools is likely to increase further because the district administration has prepared 181 schools as permanent and temporary flood shelter centres; but no flood victim has taken shelter in the centres till filing of this report at 4 pm.

Deputy Commissioner (DC) Kazi Nahid Rasul said, all kinds of preparations have been taken by the district and upazila administrations to deal with the flood situation properly.

Dry food and rice are being distributed to the flood affected people of the upazilas at the initiative of the administration to mitigate the sufferings caused by flood, she added.



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