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| Despite funds, Sonawari school without toilets | | | Syed Tahir Bukhari
BANDIPORA, Oct 18: Floods destroyed hundreds ofschools across kashmir but some schools in Bandipora which are without basic facilities like subjectthe students and theteachers to inconvenience.
According to sources there are various government primary schools which lack basic facilities including non availability of toilets and drinking water facilities due to which students have to move back to their homes to attend the natures call.
Early times has learnt from a teacher of government Primary School in Sonawari area that funds were made available in crores from union ministry for basic facilities, however he claimed that students are forced to attend natures call in open which shows the non seriousness of government towards infrastructures of educational institutions.
Teachers while criticizing the overall policy making of the government said that female students and female teaching staff of the schools are facing lot of problems who have to use toilets of nearby residents and female students have to move back to their homes to attend the natures call.
Nazir Ahmad, a Government of Middle School in Zone Sumbal said that "we are almost 12 teaching staff members in the school which include six female staff members as well. At present we are using only one bathroom both for students and teachers which is also a social stigma. Other two toilets are under construction but to make them functional seems will take months together.
Another teacher from Shilwat Shadipora wished not to be named said that, number of schools in Bandipora district is without toilets and there is also no drinking facility available due to which students are facing lot of problems.
"There are various schools without toilet facilities and there are almost 160 schools among which 79 schools have been provided funds for temporary arrangements of toilets, a senior official from Chief Education Office Bandipora told early times.
He said that a Survey was conducted by Rural Development under Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan (NBA) in Bandipora district, hundreds of schools lack toilet facilities and many among such schools lack accommodation in spite of lakhs of rupees sanctioned for, 81 schools are without toilets.
The irony is that among 81 schools there are only 31 schools for which toilet facilities were made available, and that too after a decade, we have also issued notices to the concerned authorities to expedite the work as soon as possible, he said. |
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