MOST of the kindergarten schools in Lalmonirhat are plagued by shortage of qualified teachers, lack of benches, accommodation, furniture and absence of proper academic environment.
   There are more than 20 KG schools across the district. Many of them have no permission from the authorities concerned. These schools were set up with the sole motive of earning money and not for imparting quality education to the children, local sources said.
   Though the parents have been spending substantial amount of money for the education of their children in these schools, their wards are deprived of proper education as they are being run by unqualified teachers. Unemployed youths with no teaching experience and training have been recruited by the school authorities to take classes in these KG schools.
   A guardian of student of a KG school in the district town said he had to spend substantial amount of money every month for the outfit, books, pen, papers, tuition fees and other expenditures for his ward. ‘But I am totally frustrated over the poor quality of teaching, poor environment and poor facilities in the school’, he added.
   Most of the KG schools in the district town have been established in the rented houses in the residential areas. The schools have no sufficient space in the class rooms and no play ground for the recreation of the students.
   Local sources said these KG schools do not follow any integrated syllabus. The school authorities ask the students to buy text books, papers, painting boxes, outfits and other materials from the shops of their choice. They recommend particular shops only for getting commission from them, it was alleged.
   Some guardians were of the opinion that the education department should monitor the activities of these KG schools at regular intervals so that they can not cheat the students and their guardians.

A man allegedly killed his wife at village Jamuna Nawabos of Durgapur union under Ulipur upazila Thursday midnight.
   According to villagers and police sources, the husband, Denesh Chandra Modak, 55, strangled his wife, Rani Modak, 42, following an altercation on family affairs.
   After the killing, when Denesh was fleeing villagers caught hold of him and handed him over to the police.
   The police recovered the body and sent it to hospital morgue for a post-mortem examination. A case was filed with the police.

One Chhatra League leader was electrocuted at village Bashhati under Tarail upazila in Kishoreganj on Thursday night.
   According to locals, Rafiqul Islam Suman, 22, Taljanag union AL president under the upazila, was injured critically when he came in touch of a live electric cable on the road adjacent to his residence in the evening.
   Later, he was admitted to Kishoreganj Adhunik Sadar Hospital where he died at midnight.

THE police arrested two persons and seized 20,000 rotten eggs from a truck on the Dhaka-Chittagong Highway at the Duttashar Check Post under Chauddagram upazila in Comilla on Thursday night.
   The arrested are Mohammad Alauddin, 24, of Rajbari under sadar and Mohammad Delwar, 20, of Gojaria in Munshiganj. In their confessionals statements, the two persons said they bought the eggs from a market in Gazipur to supply them to some bakeries in Chittagong.
   The police arrested Alauddin and Delawer from the Duttashar check post and seized the truck and the eggs. A case was filed with the Comilla police. Later the police destroyed the rotten eggs.