Embracing the theme "To change the world, let us flourish with joy," the education-loving Tangail Deputy Commissioner Sharifa Haque has taken an exceptional initiative to establish one playground each in the premises of 160 schools.
This aims to ensure joyful education for children from marginalized communities across 12 upazilas of Tangail district and to prevent school dropouts. Each school has been equipped with one swing, sleeper, balancer, basketball hoop, butterfly photo frame, rope ladder, and a mural featuring the map of Bangladesh.
The playground was inaugurated today, Tuesday (October 21), at Khagjana Government Primary School in Tangail Sadar by DC Sharifa Haque.
Also present were Additional Deputy Commissioner (General) Sanjay Kumar Mohanta, Tangail Municipality CEO Anisur Rahman, Tangail Sadar Upazila Nirbahi Officer Shaheen Mia, Upazila Assistant Commissioner (Land) Dewan Asif Pelo, District Primary Education Officer Md. Sahab Uddin, District Relief and Rehabilitation Officer Md. Akhtaruzzaman, among others.
DC Sharifa Haque stated that the most valuable asset of a nation is its children. Therefore, it is our responsibility to raise children through all that is beautiful, true, and pure in the world. Children develop optimally when they get the opportunity to grow up with joy.
Essentially, this initiative to build playgrounds in 160 primary schools of marginalized communities has been undertaken to ensure the optimal physical, mental, and social development of children and to prevent school dropouts. Simultaneously, an initiative has been taken to install murals of the map of Bangladesh alongside the playgrounds so that they always cherish their country in their hearts and learn to love it.
Most children in our country are deprived of a proper environment for healthy development. Children in developed countries have ample opportunities for sports and play. My desire is that children from our marginalized communities also get the opportunity to grow up happily, utilizing all our limited resources to the fullest. I believe if we are a little more caring towards children, they will flourish into ideal, efficient, and competent citizens. Those competent citizens will be people who respect the law, are responsible towards society, environmentally conscious, and possess humane values.
If we can ensure educational opportunities for children with joy, they will literally become our assets. These very children will one day make extraordinary contributions to every sector of the country and take it to the pinnacle of development. At the same time, to inspire students with patriotism, she has also taken the initiative to construct murals featuring the map of Bangladesh in every school.
Just recently, with the theme "Let a child, a dream, flourish with a flower for the future generation," to build students as environmentally conscious citizens, DC Sharifa Haque, along with students, planted 3 ornamental flower trees (Krishnachura, Jarul, Sonalu) in all government primary schools (1623 schools) in the district (total 4869 trees).
DC Sharifa Haque is continuously undertaking various programs to build children as humane individuals and to facilitate the optimal development of their talents.
