Children in Lalmonirhat char areas are being deprived of education as their parents have sent them to income generating works for earning their livelihood. Utter poverty has forced most of the parents in the char areas to send their children to work for earning livelihood, local people said. Besides, many parents in char areas do no want their children to go to schools as they have no knowledge about the importance of education. According to River Map, a local non-government organisation, about 10,000 children, aged below 12 years, in 75 chars of the district, do different odd jobs. These children even cannot complete their primary education although the government made primary education compulsory. Child daughters are the victims of poverty as their parents think that there is no need to educate them.