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Many girls being deprived of education in Rajshahi


Published : 22 Jan 2021 09:58 PM

A large number of girl students are being deprived of their educational facilities, especially in the City Corporation areas, despite various facilities like the sub-stipend (upabritty), free books, free tuition fees and food-for-education offered by the government for the propagation of female education at rural areas of the country.

There having no employment scopes including industrial bases in the city or suburban areas of Rajshahi, the poor class of people have either to work as day labourers, street vendors or as auto-rickshaw or van pullers. 

Most of the low-income group of people living at the city peripheries have no ability to send their children to schools by paying full admission and tuition fees.

Specially, hundreds of girl students at the secondary levels are staying idle at their houses without attending to their schools.

It is known, only at the primary and secondary stage of education, the girl-students of the city areas are facilitated with free studentship and free books but the poor guardians of the secondary level girl-students have been suffering most for not being able to manage the study cost. As a result, thousands of female students living in the city areas of Rajshahi are being deprived of secondary education opportunity.

It is learnt, the educational institutes of the city had been offering scholarships for the secondary level girl students but the amount is very poor.

Concerned sources said, there are more than 25,000 girl students reading in 50 government primary schools, 13 registered primary schools and a number of Madrashas and the Kinder Garten schools. In last year, 5,000 students were enrolled in class five in the government primary schools of which  2,359 are male students and the rests are female students. 

It is learnt, most of the guardians of the students reading at the government primary schools of Rajshahi are from the poor classes.

Comparatively well off people of the city send their children to the kindergarten or to the government high schools which also offer primary educations. Due to tough contest and coaching based admission tests, the students of poor guardians failed to admit their children in those posh schools.

According to sources, more than 15 per cent girl students of the city schools abandoned their study in the primary stage while in the secondary level most of the poor guardians failed to provide admission fees, tuition fees, examination fees for their girls. Even, they failed to purchase books for them.

The low-income group guardians of the girl students of city schools have pleaded to the government to introduce free tuition and sub-stipend for the girls in the secondary and up to the graduation level of all city educational institutes to ensure a 100 per cent female education.