Academic activities at two schools in Gopalpur municipality are hampered badly for long as an important road crosses its field.
Consequently, around 900 pupils of Dubail Government Primary School and Dubail Adarsha Gana High School cannot maintain proper attention in the classes in the face of sound created by the plying vehicles.
Sources said there are 371 primary and 512 secondary students in the schools housing a total of ten establishments on single ground, which encircle the ground. The Dubail-Gangapara road crosses the school field and thousands of various sorts of vehicles ply on the road creating unusual sound. Class-IV student Liza said: “During the break, we play in the field amid fear that we may meet accident any time by rickshaw or motorcycle or any other vehicles.”
One guardian named Luna Akter said: “Accident may occur anytime as the road crosses the school ground and that is why I stay at school during the whole class hours to ensure my child’s safety shunning important house chores.”
Dubail Government Primary School Headmistress Rokeya Khatun said: “The school area should be calm and quiet. But we cannot maintain it as hundreds of autorickshaw, CNG-run autorickshaw and many other vehicles ply on the road regularly. Even we cannot erect a boundary wall around the school.”
Two class-X students, namely Nahimon Hasan and Md Shapan Sheikh, said: “We cannot hold our concentration in class because of the sound of moving vehicles.”
Md Enamul Haque, president of Dubail Govt Primary School managing committee, said: “Thousands of people of Dhopakandi Union use this road regularly. Often our students get hurt by the vehicles plying on the road. The authorities concerned should shift the road elsewhere from the school ground immediately before appearing any fatal accident.”
Md Bodiuzzaman Shikder, headteacher of Dubail Adarsha Gana High School, said: “We have informed our local MP several times about the concern. Even, we have sent letter to the municipality authorities to change the passage of the road and the efforts are yet to see any results.” Tangail Deputy Commissioner Md Mahbub Hossain said he has already ordered the local assistant commissioner of land to shift the road on the backside of the schools.
