The Problem
Run a school in Bangladesh on paper and you run it twice: once in the registers and once in the corrections. Attendance is taken in khata books and transcribed later, so parents find out about absences days late. Fee collection depends on hand-written invoices — cash leaks through unissued receipts, waived dues nobody recorded, and late fines calculated differently by every clerk. Marksheets are rebuilt in Word every term against shifting board formats. Madrasas have it harder: Hifz progress, Arabic and general subjects live in separate notebooks that no single report can combine. When a parent asks a simple question — is my child in class, has the fee been paid, what did she score — answering it takes three staff and an afternoon.