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Gaibandha students receiving highly nutritious biscuits


Bangladeshpost
Published : 26 Sep 2020 09:57 PM

High nutrition enriched biscuit distribution among students in Gaibandha Sadar upazila under school feeding programme during the corona situation began on Friday.

The biscuits are being handed over among the students reaching their homes as a reputed non-government organization RDRS Bangladesh in cooperation with Directorate of Primary Education is implementing the programme.

United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) and United States of Department of Agriculture finance the scheme. Under the programme, each of the students of a school would get 75 grams of high energetic biscuits at first period of school time except the holidays.

As the schools are closed for indefinite period due to corona virus pandemic, the students can’t attend the schools. As a result, they are not getting the biscuits.

Taking this into cognizance, the authorities took initiative to distribute biscuits going homes of the students.

Sadar Upazila UNO Prasun kumar chakrabartee formally inaugurated the biscuit distribution activities on Friday going home of a learner in Kalibari area of the town here. The student received 30 packets of biscuits from the UNO.

Acting upazila education officer Arzuman Ara Gulenur, assistant upazila education officers Rabeya Begum and Masumul Islam, head teacher of Jubilee Govt. Primary School Nandita Rani Roy, assistant teachers Hosne Ara and Mukta Rani accompanied the UNO during the biscuits distribution.

Head teacher Nandita Rani Roy said 234 students of the school each would get 30 packets of biscuits at home until the school is open.