Mintu Deshwara

Students of a high school in Habiganj’s Chunarughat upazila have been taking classes on the premises of a temple for the last eight months. The school in question is Bangabandhu High School, where mostly the children of indigenous tea garden workers are enrolled.

A physically challenged by birth, Md Afzal Hosain of Pattai village in Moulvibazar’s Kulaura upazila has set a laudable example of self-reliance and benevolent service through determination and hard work.

Education of indigenous children enrolled with 106 No Satgaon Cha Bagan Chankhala Government Primary School in ​​Srimangal upazila of Moulvibazar is hampered as their classes are held in an awfully dilapidated bamboo and straw made house.

Despite different initiatives, most of the paddy farmers in Sunamganj are not benefitting from the government’s ongoing food procurement programme allegedly because of the actions of middlemen and lack of monitoring.

This program was organised by Rabirashmi, an organisation that promotes music in Moulvibazar. They performed a musical gathering titled Srabondhara.

The 250-bed District Hospital in Moulvibazar is now playing a significant role in providing quality treatment facilities for women in labour, newborn babies and children, thanks to the authorities’ special initiative that started in January 2017.

Lathitila forest in Juri upazila of Moulvibazar faces a serious threat as settlers continue clearing forest areas for fruit cultivation and fish farming there.

After decades of discrimination, the communities of tea plantation workers in Sylhet region are on the verge of losing their native languages and traditions.

Academic activities at Madan Gouri Government Primary School in Moulvibazar’s Kulaura upazila come to a standstill with the advent of monsoon every year.

With haors in Sylhet division getting filled to the brim by monsoon rains, the demand for boats has peaked.

The lone X-ray machine at Moulvibazar’s Kulaura Health Complex has not once been used since the time it was purchased 24 years ago.

Floods have caused severe damage to most roads in all eleven upazilas of Sunamganj, suspending road communications between many upazilas including the district headquarters and Tahirpur.

The government has taken an initiative to close the road and rail route that slices through Lawachhara reserve forest at Kamalganj upazila of Moulvibazar, in an effort to protect the wildlife in the nature reserve.

PRAN-RFL Group gives the highest importance to environmental issues apart from manufacturing quality products, creating largescale employment and contributing to socio-economic development through the setting up of factories and operations, said its director (marketing) yesterday.

The decades-old railway bridges on Akhaura-Sylhet route are in a poor condition as most of the wooden sleepers, banded clips, and nuts and bolts are damaged or missing.

The derailment of Upaban Express in Moulvibazar was caused likely by faulty lines or misaligned carriage wheels, say officials.

A vast tract of land is under threat of being flooded by the Monu river during this rainy season as its embankment in Moulvibazar

Habiganj town dwellers had to suffer following a three-hour downpour and subsequent waterlogging yesterday.

Unabated extraction of sand, using dredgers, from below the surface of agricultural land in different areas of Srimangal upazila for long is posing erosion threat to vast tracts of nearby agricultural land, dwellings and other establishments.

Tea Workers Day, a day commemorating massacre of tea workers 98 years ago, will be observed today in a befitting manner.