Batpara Secondary School beset with classroom crisis

MEHERPUR, July 12 (BSS): Academic activities at Batpara Secondary School under Gangni upazila of the district is being hampered due to an acute crisis of classrooms.
School sources said 153 students out of 513 are compelled to take lessons under open sky on the premises of the institution for lack of classrooms.
"We have been studying under trees on the school premises since long even during hot spells, winter and monsoon for paucity of classrooms and shortage of furniture," Sarmin Akhtar, a student of class nine of the school told BSS.
The students of 10 villages of Gangni upazila prefer studying at Batpara Secondary School as the institution has the success of 100 percent pass rate in SSC and JSC examinations in the last two consecutive years.
Mohammad Romanul Hoque, headmaster of the school, said the school desperately needs three more classrooms to accommodate the students of class nine and 10.
Because of insufficient classrooms and furniture, the students of the school have been forced to take lessons under open sky, he said.
The school, an MPO enlisted educational institution, has only 8 tin-shed rooms.
Local MP Mokbul Hossain told BSS that he is aware of classrooms problem of the school and would step up efforts to construct three more classrooms under the government financial assistance.