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Mindless act of contractor

Kids cannot play for last 6 months as construction materials occupy school ground

Our Correspondent, Patuakhali
A contractor has kept construction materials on the playground of a primary school in Galachipa upazila of the district, hampering sports and other physical activities of the students.
Locals said the contractor, Mahfttz Khan, owner of a construction firm named M Khan Group, has been using the entire playground of Purbo Pardakua Government Primary School for six months to keep construction materials as the firm is building a bridge on the nearby Dakua Canal.
The students cannot play games during leisure time while school authorities cannot hold assembly
before the start of classes everyday.
While visiting the school recently, this correspondent saw the playground have been filled with construction materials, including bricks, stones, sands and steel rods. He also found a brick crushing machine in the southern part of the field.
Abdullah, a class four student, said the playground has remained occupied by the contractor concerned for at least six months. "We cannot play games at the leisure time due to lack of space.
When the diesel-run brick crushing machine goes on, it greatly hampers the academic activities, alleged teachers and guardians.
Bela Rani Kundu, headmistress of the school, said she repeatedly requested the contractor concerned and staff of his firm to remove the construction materials from school playground, but to no effect.
"I also informed the authorities concerned of the matter, but no step has been taken yet, ” she added.
Md Motiur Rahman, chairman of the school managing committee, said M Khan Group's men requested me to give them a space on the playground to keep the construction materials only for a month, but they did not remove the materials even after five months.
"I gave them permission, considering the suffering of
the local people as well as the students of the school for want of a concrete bridge on the canal".
Contacted, Galachipa Upazila Education Officer Md Mahtab Uddin said, he was not aware of the matter. "I will take necessary steps as soon as possible to recover the playground.
This correspondent could not contact contractor Mahfuz Khan as his cellphone remained switched off. One of his staff later told the correspondent over phone that they couldn’t remove construction materials from the field as there was no other place in the area to keep them. "We are trying our best to complete the construction work as soon as possible," he said.