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Forget school, greet Shahara

Students of a Bhola upazila made to queue up on roadside to welcome home minister

Our Correspondent, Barisai
A section of students of all the educational institutions at Char Fassion in Bhola who queued up along the road and their teachers went to attend a meeting of the local elite with Home Minister Shahara Khatun, suspending classes and examinations yesterday. photo: star
The students of all the 85 educational institutions in Charfassion upazila of Bhola had to queue up on roadsides to greet Home Minister Shahara Khatun, and the teachers had to attend a meeting with her when she was on a visit to the upazila on Saturday.
Classes at all these institutions and examinations scheduled for the day at many of those were suspended, reports from Bhola quoting students, their guardians and teachers said.
The institutions included 43 primary, junior and secondary schools, 32
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madrasasand 10 colleges.
Earlier in December, 2009 the government issued a notification forbidding closure of schools and queuing up of students during visits of government high-ups.
The home minister visited Charfassion upazila to inaugurate the newly constructed buildings of Dakkhin Char Aicha and Shashibhushan police stations.
Students of all the educational institutions were earlier asked to queue up on both sides of Bhola-Charfassion-Kachchhapia road to welcome the minister, and the teachers to attend her meet-ingwith the local elite.
The administration organised the meeting held at Dakkhin Aicha Secondary School ground at 12:00 noon.
Contacted, Secretary' of Bangladesh Shikkhak Samity,
Charfassion upazila unit, Nazrul Islam admitted that al least 70 educational institutions in the upazila suspended classes and many of those deferred examinations scheduled for Saturday.
He, however, said, " We never asked these institutions to suspend the classes on the day."
When asked, the heads of five educational institutions said they had suspended classes as they were asked to ensure that their students queued up to greet the home minister.
And they deferred the examinations scheduled for Saturday to July 15 and 28 as per directive of the Upazila Shikkhak Samity, they added.
The five included Md Shahjahan, Harunur Rashid and Kamaluddin, headmasters of Dularhat, Keramatganj and Shashibhushan secondary schools, Principal of Janata Bazar College Shikharani
Majumdar and Principal of Karimjan Mohila Madrasa MoulanaAbdul Klialek.
Besides, guardians of many students echoed their views.
Asked, Bashir Ahmed, Bhola superintendent of police, said the meeting with the home ministerwas held on an abandoned field without hampering regular activities of any educational institution.
Mokammel Huq, Bhola education officer, said the authourities never asked any institutions to suspend classes or defer examinations.
Contacted, ahigh official of tire home ministry' said classes and examinations in any academic institutions of Charfassion were not affected since the minister visited Dakkhin Char Aicha al around 11:00am and Shashibhushan at around 4:30pm.
Preferring anonymity, he also said they did not know whether the authorities of the institutions suspended