Jharna Memorial School: It is a sparking light in the dark

ABDUL WAHED:

Jharna Memorial School. It is a non-government residential learning center, which is situated in the border village West Rumkhana under Nageswari upazila of the district. The institution so that is a sparking light in the dark in education sector here.

The school was set up there in 2002. Some students of other upazilas are learning education beside local students. The students are becoming talent and all squares through residential teaching. They are being talented on sports and creative activates in parallel of their lessons. In the average result of school scholarship examinations in the last some sessions, about 95 percentage of participating students obtained scholarship. The feature and image of the all areas are being changed through the education activity.

Rumkhana is a border adjacent village at Nageswari upazila in 46 kilometers far from Kurigram town. In the village in 2002, Afsar ali and his wife Jharna Begam arranged of founding a primary school. But a pathetic incident was that Jharna Begam died on the inauguration day of the school. Later the name of the school was decided as Jharna Memorial School. The construction of school has been made fully with tin-shed on two acres of land. There are 12 residential tin-shed houses except classrooms. Where there are separate residential houses for boys and girls students.

One of the main disciplines is the students could not learn in any tuition or coaching centre. The students come in the school in the early morning and back their houses afternoon after completing their lesson in school. There are arrangement of sports and cultural exercise for students. The School obtained the top awarded as top school in 'Mathematics Olympiad' in 2006. The 14 teachers taught 250 students in all times there.

The founder Headmaster of the school told this correspondent that the school has been set up with all supports of my family and mine. The school is my dream and desire. The children will be measured properly this is my hope. Model classes of revolt poet Kazi Nazrul Islam have been started as their special class. I think of constructing a separate bhaban for it.

Spenditure in learning for students are limited as rural area. He wants to establish as a model school with the help of all in our country, he added.