Makaut provides study materials to students of Amphan ravaged Gosaba in Sundarbans

Biswabrata Goswami

KRISHNAGAR, 17 JUNE: Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology (MAKAUT) has taken a noble initiative, to help the people who have lost everything because of the super cyclone Amphan that ravaged the state.

They have provided study materials to the students of Pakhirala High School at Gosaba, a remotely located government aided school in Sundarbans area. Since the locality of that school is very much affected due to the cyclone so the students have lost their books and other study materials and they can’t afford to purchase those again. On a request from the headmaster of the Pakhirala High School, the vice chancellor of MAKAUT, Prof. Dr. Saikat Maitra took the initiative to provide all the learning materials to the affected students of the school, a MAKAUT spokesperson said.

“Around 40 students of class ten will be benefited with these resources. It was organized under the supervision of Mr. Anup Mukherjee, Asst. Registrar, MAKAUT, Haringhata campus,” said the spokesperson.

The Covid and Amphan Contingency Team of MAKAUT, WB has reached out to the school and handed over all the learning materials such as 160 books, 120 note books, pens-pencils-erasers-school bags-hand sanitizers and napkins. The headmaster and the other school staff were present to receive these materials. This is not the first time that MAKAUT has extended their helping hands to the needy people, they had provided 200 raw food packets to the students of Adarsha Balika Shikshayatan (Jadavpur Kolkata) earlier also. Apart from these the local schools of Haringhata who are associated with MAKAUT, WB through Setu Bandhan programme for academic help are also being held out by the university. MAKAUT is being constantly approached by schools for such initiatives, the spokesperson added.