“Moanoghar, the Shanti
Niketan of the Hills” commented by SM Saiful Alam, Deputy Director, Integrated
Stipend Program, Prime Minister’s Education Assistance Trust, Dhaka during his visit
to Moanoghar on 17 December 2021. He visited the school followed by a meeting
with the Headmaster, the Executive Director and the members of the Moanoghar
Executive Council at the Moanoghar Temmangshala Thong ghar (meeting place).
He said, “Moanoghar is an exceptional educational institution in
Bangladesh, which has been working to provide education to the orphans,
destitute and very poor children from all the three Hill Districts through
provision of residential facilities for them”.
“The Director, teachers
and other staff members of the institute are very caring with the children. A
unique feature of the institute is that education is imparted to the children
in a natural setting, as if it were the Shanti Niketan of Rabindranath Tagore
in the hills”- he commented.
He wrote in the visitor’s book that Moanoghar being
a special education institution, a few things should be positively be
considered for it, such as appointment of the teachers and non-teaching staff should
done by taking the organisation’s fundamental spirit; to provide stipends and
special assistance to the poor students in the school. He opined that the
special rules and policies should be approved to apply for Moanoghar
considering its distinct characteristics.
During his visit to
Moanoghar, SM Saiful Alam was accompanied by his family members and the Mayor
of Rangamati Municipal Corporation Akbar Hossain Chowdhury.
