Assignments are being given by the respective schools for the purpose of verifying the merits of all the students at the end of the year due to the closure of the school during the Coronation period. It has been alleged that Atharbari MC High School in Mymensingh’s Ishwarganj Upazila has been charged a maximum of Tk 400. In order to pay it, the mother of the daughter of the day laborer of the school sold her sari and collected money for her daughter. Discussions and criticisms are going on about this.
Local sources and the victim’s mother said, the day laborer in the seventh grade at the school. Shahid’s daughter Ritu Akhter (Roll-26). Goes to school last Thursday to bring assignments. At the time, his classmates said. Seeing that he was taking the assignment from Anwar Hossain, he went ahead himself. According to Ritu, when asked to give him an assignment, teacher Anwar Hossain demanded a total of Tk 340 with three pages of questions, two pens and one page of suggestions. At that time, when he gave a note of one hundred rupees given by his father, he was reprimanded and chased away. At the same time, he said, he has to bring 340 rupees, otherwise he will not be able to pass the eighth class. The humiliated girl went home crying and informed her mother Bilkis Akhter about the incident.
The student’s mother Bilkis Akhter said that the girl came home and cried a lot. Later he could not bear it. Since he had no money at that time, he sold his three old saris for 300 rupees.
Former member of the school management committee can know the incident of raising money by selling sari. Shahjahan Kabir. Shahjahan said he went to the school to protest against taking students hostage and taking money. He later collected a free assignment letter. He also bought A-four paper with his own money.
It is learned that there is a stationery shop in Atharbari Bazar next to the school of teacher Anwar Hossain. He forced the students to buy necessary papers and pens from the shop.
The headmaster of the school said. Zahirul Islam said, assignment does not cost money. Then he was asked to take a maximum of Rs 10 for the cost of the photostat. But why that teacher demanded or took so much money is being investigated. Such allegations have also reached his ears. But no one complained.
Accused teacher Anwar Hossain said that the internal affairs of the school can only be resolved without any interference from outside. Ishwarganj Upazila Secondary Education Officer. Ashraful Islam said that anyone can download the assignment from the specific website. Money cannot be recovered in return for assignment.
