Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked officials to build relocatable education institutes in the areas that are susceptible to river erosion.

The prime minister issued the instruction at a meeting of the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council, or ECNEC, on Tuesday, Planning Minister MA Mannan said.

The move follows damages to several multi-storey schools on the banks of the Padma and Meghna rivers during this year’s monsoon season, he added.

“Do we ever think about the location while building educational institutions on the banks of rivers?” Hasina said and asked the authorities to follow the model developed by the local residents in Munshiganj.

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