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20,000 char children deprived of education in Kushtia

Published : Saturday, 2 February, 2019 at 12:00 AM  Count : 757
PM Serajul Islam
KUSHTIA, Feb 1: About 20,000 children in 50 char villages on Padma and Gorai River  basins in the district are deprived of education.  
The char children of Kushtia Sadar, Kumarkali, Khoksa, Mirpur, Veramara and Daulatpur upazilas of the district lack their access to primary education for different reasons.
Poverty, ignorance, shortage of school, and bad communication system  in the char areas are the main reasons of deprivation of education.
There are total 50 government and registered primary schools in the char areas, but attendance at the schools is not satisfactory. Though a few number of guardians send their children to school, they cannot continue with the education due to their abject poverty.
On the other hand, the children aged between seven to 15 years usually do not go to school as their illiterate parents do not understand the importance of education. Instead of sending their children to schools, the guardians want them to work in farmlands, as abject poverty haunts them round the year.
Aminur Rahaman Bisu, chairman of Ambaria Union Parishad under Khoksa Upazila said male members of the poor families at char areas usually go to different districts, especially in the capital Dhaka, in search of work, leaving their families at home. The female guardians face innumerable problem over maintaining family burden. As a result, they make their children work in farmlands with them.
Rahima Khatun, a teacher of Char Sadipur Government Primary School in Kumarkali Upazila said, teachers go from door to door encouraging guardians for sending their children to school. But most of the guardians do not agree in this connection due to poverty.
"Total 35 children took admission in class one in our school. Of them, only 10 to 15 children come to the school regularly. Maximum children work in the farmland with their parents," she also said.
Many children aged below ten at Gorai River basin char Ambaria Village under Khoksa Upazila are seen rearing cows, goats and working at farmland regularly. Many of these children are eager to go to school but their parents are not interested in this connection.
Tariqul Islam, 8, son of Rahim Mia of Char Ambaria Village said, "I want to go to school but my parents do not let me go, instead they ask me to go out for rearing cows."
The child's father Rahim Mia said, "I'm not interested to send my child to school as I can't bear the expenses of his study. If my children work in the farmland, it will be of great help for me."
Another guardian Kuddus Ali of the same village said, "If our children get habituated with hard work, they themselves will be able to work hard when they are adult."
Rita Khatun, a teacher of Hislabot Government Primary School at Khoksa Upazila said, she personally encouraged many char children to attend school but they lost their interest due to their guardian's ignorance. Guardians of the char children don't want to understand the necessity of education; they only believe their children will earn money through hard labour which will build their future, she further said.
District Primary Education office sources said, they enlisted names of 30,000 children for 50 primary schools in 50 char villages on Padma and Gorai  basins, but only 12,000 children are attending schools regularly this year. Some of them are irregular as they have to work at the farmlands.
When contacted, District Primary Education Officer Ananda Kumar Pal said, primary education officials are working at the field level in Padma and Gorai char villages for building awareness among the guardians for sending their children to school.





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