playground

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Education

How schools can help children when playgrounds are shrinking

Trucks are parked at the garages built on occupied land of Gabtoli field located at the Mirpur Mazar Road area in the capital taking up play space of local children. This photo was taken on Wednesday. Photo: TBS
Bangladesh

What fate awaits Gabtoli playground?

Photo: Md Jahidul Islam/TBS
Bangladesh

Urban planners want separate policy, body to protect open spaces

Banani Block-C Park in Dhaka North is empty as the entry doors are found to be locked for most of the time. The field has been filled with tall grass. File Photo: Rajib Dhar
Court

HC asks for list of parks, playgrounds in capital

Authorities managing Dhaka North’s Shaheed Zayan Chowdhury Playground in Banani impose a litany of rules and regulations on public access to the space. Photo: Md Jahidul Islam/TBS
Bangladesh

Dhaka North playground in Banani: A public facility for a select few?

Children play on a playground in the capital’s Bauniabadh area which was previously used by locals as a garbage dumping ground. Photo: Md Jahidul Islam/TBS
Bangladesh

Dumping ground made into playground in less than a month

A group of children play football in an alley in the capital’s Eskaton area. The number of playgrounds in the capital is shrinking alarmingly, forcing kids to either play on the roads or to force them to stay indoors and resort to gadgets, which is affecting them in the long run. Photo: Zia Chowdhury
Bangladesh

Authorities unconcerned as children lose playgrounds in Dhaka

Park, playground to be constructed on Karnaphuli banks
Bangladesh

Park, playground to be constructed on Karnaphuli banks

Syed Ratna and her cohort's efforts ensured the children of her locality were not without a playground Photo: Noor-A-Alam
Panorama

Revisiting Syeda Ratna's heroic endeavour to save Tetultala playground

Photo: Md Jahidul Islam/TBS
Bangladesh

Golapbagh playground yet to open a year after renovation

Photo: TBS
Bangladesh

20 injured as police, madrasah students clash in the capital

Dhaka North transforms an abandoned land, used for illegal parking and waste dumping, in the capital’s Mirpur-10 area into a child-friendly public space. Photo: Md Jahidul Islam
Bangladesh

Dumping ground now a child-friendly public space

Picture: MumitM/TBS
Education

Establish at least one quality school with playgrounds in each ward in Dhaka: Experts