Patuakhali
Two villages without any schools
About 3,000 children are being deprived of education
The remote and desolate Charmadarbunia and Charkasem villages in Rangabali upazila have no primary schools for nearly 3,000 children of the families living there. They are being deprived of education like their forefathers.
The people in those villages, which are old river shoals, are mostly illiterate and engaged in farming.
Although Rosulbaria and Mujibbaria government primary schools are only 4/5 kilometers away from these villages.
But the children of Charmadarbunia and Charkasem villages are unable to go to the schools due to communication problem. As a result children of the both villages are deprived of compulsory primary education.
Sania Akhter Salma, 10, of Charkasem village, said, I do not read in the school. I am working with my mom. Salma would be in grade four had there been a school there. Instead, she, at this age, is working with her mother to support the family.
Atiqur Rahman, an inhabitant of Charkasem village, said the children do not know about why one need education and cannot tell a school would look like.
Mashiur Rahman Shimul, an inhabitant Rangabali village, said it is very painful for being unable to send the children to school.
Golam Sagir, Rangabali upazila primary education officer, admitting the fact said: We have already submitted proposals to the higher authorities for setting up schools in those two remote villages of Rangabali.
