Six of 24 government primary schools, torched and vandalised by the activists of BNP-led 20-party alliance in the district the night before the parliamentary elections on January 5, 2014, are yet to be rebuilt.
These are Lolita Mohon Bhuiyan Government Primary School in Shailakupa upazila, Mamunshia Government Primary School, Pashpatila Government Primary School, Phulbaria Government Primary School, Solimanpur Government Primary School, and Balabaria Government Primary School in Kotchandpur upazila.
Locals said the schools were supposed to be reconstructed immediately after the election, but no step has been taken yet.
Students of the six schools attend their classes under trees or open sky. They have to sit on the ground as the benches were vandalised and torched during the attack.
During this correspondent's visit to the schools recently, teachers told him that the upazila nirbahi officers (UNOs) ascertained the damages to the six schools caused by the attacks and submitted necessary papers to the authorities concerned, but funds are yet to be allocated for rebuilding the schools.
They said education of children is being greatly hampered for want of schoolhouses. 
Arif Mahmud, a Class V student of Mamunshia Government Primary School in Kotchandpur upazila, said the benches of classrooms were set afire by the attackers. "It is difficult for us to remain sitting on the ground in the sun for at least four hours everyday," he said.
Afsar Uddin, headmaster of Lolita Mohon Bhuiyan Government Primary School in Shailakupa upazila, said they face trouble to run the school under the open sky.
Contacted, Kotchandpur Upazila Primary Education Officer Dev Proshad Paul and Shailakupa Upazila Primary Education Officer Din Mohammad said they submitted necessary papers to the office concerned in Dhaka after the incident.
"We hope the authorities concerned will allocate funds for rebuilding the six schools as soon as possible," they added.