Narsingdi Correspondent :
About one out of four children of char villages in Narsingdi district have been deprived of their rightsw to have compulsory primary education due to their guardians’ poverty, ignorance and shortage of schools and lack of communication facilities.
Some local leaders of the areas told The New Nation that the number of aged between 5 to10 years in 12 char unions of the district is about 15ooo to 20000 are school going while 4000 to 5000 are treated as dropouts.
Due to geographical reasons most of the people of the char areas are unemployed and no venture was taken up for poverty alleviation.
Surrounded by water at char areas about 3000 to 4000 children in different chars 0f the district are engaged in earning their livelihood by catching fishes or working in crop fields or in different restaurants ,hotels, factories in the district town .
According to District Primary Education Officer that there are shortage of schools in the char unions because these unions are situated at remote areas from the upazila headquarters.
Ashaduzzaman Azan, Chairman of Sreenagor Char Union Parishad under Raipura upazila told the correspondent that about 1200 to1500 children aged between 5 to 10 years in the union are school going while over 300 are treated as dropouts. There are five primary school in 8 eight vllages of the union
Delwar Hossain , Chairman of Alock Bali Char Union parishad under Sadar upazila of the district said,over 1500 to 1600 children aged between 5to10 years in the union are school going, of them about 400 children are missing their school
Chairman of others char unions also narrated the same. They said they had been encouraging the guardians to send their children in school for education, but most of the guardians not hearing them due to livelihood problem .
