Gafargaon (Mymensingh) Correspondent :
To get rid of illiteracy, an old woman (66) with her grand son Zihad Mea (10) has appeared at the PEC Examination this year at Trishal under Mymensingh recently.
Grand-mother Sundori Begum and grand-son Zihad have participated in the PEC Examination from Southkanda Government Primary School under this Upazila. Sundori Begum is a wife of Farmer Abul Hussain at Satkanda village of Horirumpur Union.
During examination hours , it is seen that Sundori Begum (66) is sitting for the examination among 370 examinees of Chawladi Govt Primary School Centre on Tuesday because she has to make a good result to get rid of the curse of illiteracy.
Sundori Begum informed that her husband Abul Hussain is a sharecropper cultivator by profession. They don’t know how to read and write. This couple could not make their children educated because of poverty. She also informed that she made a mistake to give 3 signature while opening a Bank Account at Kashigong Branch of Agriculture Bank. At this the manager of Bank threw away file before her . Later, returning home she promised , she has to get rid of the curse of illiteracy by hook or crook.
Later , she and her grand-son Zihad went to the Headmaster of Southkanda Government Primary school and admitted herself into class one. She used to go to school regularly by the side of working as a maid servant
