BGTA comes forward to provide study and relief materials to the students living at Amphan ravaged tribal hamlet - Muragacha in Ranaghat

Souren Bhattacharya, state secretary of BGTA informed that the organization is fighting against pay discrimination  at the same time  and they are also pursuing relief works to the distressed people all over the state.

Biswabrata Goswami

KRISHNAGAR, 20 JUNE: Online class is not the only responsibility that teachers are taking these days. Teachers under the banner of Brihattara Graduate Teachers’ Association are also looking after the students hit by the cyclone Amphan.

Teachers and members of Ranaghat OBR Brihattara Graduate Teachers’ Association, popularly known as BGTA, an association of Graduate teachers of West Bengal, have come forward to provide relief materials to the Amphan affected students and other children living at Muragacha, a tribal hamlet in Ranaghat-I block in Nadia.

As the area was badly ravaged by the super cyclone Amphan and several children of different schools lost their study materials along with household things, the BGTA’s Ranaghat unit conducted a relief camp there and distributed relief materials to them.

A total of 100 students were shortlisted and they were given study materials like copy book, pen, pencil and eraser and other relief materials like Horlics, biscuits, eggs and noodle packets.

Sraboni Dutta, a school teacher who had taken part in the relief camp said, “The area was badly affected by the cyclone Amphan. The children studying in different schools had lost their study materials during the cyclone. Once the idea of reaching out to the needy students was initiated, we were joined by few others who contributed money for the cause. Later, this idea gained momentum mainly through a word of mouth campaign and we the teachers under the banner of our organisation started contributing to the cause”.

“Our organisation has not only come forward to provide relief materials, we have donated Rs 5 lakh to the Chief Minister’s state relief fund and Rs 1 lakh to the Prime Minister’s relief fund”, Ms Dutta said.

Souren Bhattacharya, state secretary of BGTA informed that the organisation is fighting against pay discrimination  at the same time  and they are also pursuing relief works to the distressed people all over the state.