M M Jasim :
The Education Ministry is going to prepare a list of flood affected educational institutions for repairing with a view to conducting the academic activities smoothly, sources said.
Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid has asked the concern officials of the ministry to prepare the list as early as possible.
The ministry officials said that some instructions would also be provided to the affected institutions to recover the gap of the study of the students.
Director General of Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education (DSHE) Dr SM Wahiduzzaman said that they asked all the district education officers to send reports on schools damaged by the flood as soon as possible.
He said that they would address the losses suffered by the students on the basis of the reports.
He also assured that they would provide books to students if those were also damaged by the flood. At least 1,289 primary schools and 255 secondary schools have so far been closed for flood in the northern districts of Lalmonirhat, Kurigram, Gaibandha, Nilphamari, Rangpur, Sirajganj, Bogra, Jamalpur and the north-eastern districts of Moulivibazar, Sunamganj and Sylhet, according to district education and primary education officials.
Besides, classes of 27 more primary schools have been suspended as they are being used as flood shelter centres.
Deputy Director of the Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education (DSHE), Rangpur Division, Sirajul Islam said that academic activities of 77 secondary schools of the same districts were suspended due to the flood.
They, however, failed to provide the district-wise statistics.
Sirajul Islam informed that many secondary school authorities had to reschedule the mid-term examinations.
Deputy Director of the Department of Primary Education (DPE), Rangpur Division, Mahbub Ali said that during the last several days academic activities remained suspended for 460 primary schools in Rangpur, Lalmonirhat, Nilphmaray, Gaibandha and Kurigram districts.
Mahbub Ali said that they asked the school authorities to suspend the classes for Class I and II of schools the adjacent areas of which went under water.
“We cannot take the risk of the life of any student,” he said.
Field level reports also forecast closure of more schools as flood water has reached the adjacent areas of another 100 schools, he said.
Deputy Director of the Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education (DSHE), Sylhet Division, Tahmina Khatun said that classes remained suspended at 305 primary schools in Sylhet, Sunamganj and Maulvibazar.
She informed that another 27 schools were being used as flood shelter centre while school authorities in some cases arranged alternative places like houses of school managing committee chairmen and local influential people to continue classes.
