National Desk :
A new primary school is set to be established at Maizpara village of Haildhar union under Anwara upazilla of Chittagong. This is going to be a philanthropic venture by Mr Aziz Ahmad, a Bangladeshi American who is keen to establish the school by the name of his late father Ayub Ahmad, who was a brave freedom fighter and served as a primary teacher before he died in early 1980s.
Bashir Ahmed Chowdhury, a local opinion leader and former chairman of Haildhar Union Parishad inaugurated the construction work of school building by digging soil with a spade.
Children of the area have to travel quite a long distance to attend school, so this proposed school is going to be a blessing for them, Bashir Ahmed opined while talking at the inaugural.
Aziz Ahmad was expressing all his excitements about the school initiative which he is going to fund by himself. He mentioned about the call from Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina saying, it is the rich people in the society who should come forward to enhance the educational endeavors.
‘I feel overwhelmed to do something for my country and especially for my village,’ Ahmad said. Md. Abdul Karim, Former Principal Secretary, Bangladesh Government, Major Gen. ATM Abdul Wahab, Former MP and Chairman, Bangladesh Red Crescent Society, Nazrul Islam Khan, Former Education Secretary and Curator, Bangabondhu Museum and Professor Pradip Kumar Chakraborty, Chairman, Chattagram Education Board joined virtually to grace the program.
All of them praised Aziz Ahmad for taking such a noble philanthropic initiative for the children of the village he himself hails from.
