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| Poonch MLA's ancestral village has school with 2 classrooms to accomodate 175 students | | In the absence of toilet, girl students go to fields | | BHARAT BHUSHAN
ET REPORT
JAMMU, Dec 22: One way to block the channels of knowledge and information is to let schools and other centres of learning remain underdeveloped. MLA's ancestral Maidan village in Sabjian, Poonch, has one such school.
Built on a small piece of land, the only government middle school in the dusty village is devoid of adequate space to accomodate all its 175 students.In the name of a building, it has only two rooms. As about 175 students from class I to VIII cannot be accomodated and taught in two classrooms, classes are taken by teachers in open in the adjoining fields.During rainy days, however, majority students are officially given off due to the dearth of space.
The worst thing is that the school does not have a toilet for the girl students as a result of which they are forced to go to the fields much to their inconvenience.
As the school is close to the main road, the girls had to search for safer places in the fields to attend call of nature, said Abdul Ghani Malik, Nigran Committee chairman of Gagrian village. He alleged that due to the paucity of space, neither students nor teachers took interest in the educational activities. Even the midday meals were not being served to students on regular basis, Malik alleged. He said last week, five out of the six school teachers had gone on leave. "Under such circumstances, how can one expect students to become serious in their studies?" he asked.
Students would take interest in studies only when teachers took interest in them, he opined. Incharge chief education officer (CEO), Poonch, Abdul Hamid Fani said five out of the total six teachers could not go on leave on a day. He said he would enquire into the incident and action would be taken gainst the school head.
The incharge CEO claimed that funds had been alloted by the government for the construction of additional classrooms in the school. The construction work was expected to begin soon, he added. Meanwhile, the villagers, while expressing their unhappiness with MLA and asked him to ensure the immediate construction of additional classrooms so that all the students could attend their classes daily. |
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