62 students of 8 classes crammed into three-room school building
Sameer Ahmad
Anantnag: An another jolt to the School Education Department in Kashmir valley, Students of three government schools study in three room building at Mandipora Dooru Anantnag.
The school building has only three classrooms. In which one is used for office and other two is used for classes.
Functioning in the jurisdiction of Zone Dooru, Government Primary School (GPS) Herpora Dooru was established in 2013, the other two schools wandipora Middle school and chambran middle school was established in 1969 and 2003 and was run in one building at Mandipora village, Barely a mile away from the Chief Education Officer home. The two school wandipora Middle school and chambran middle school functions from a rundown building which was on the verge of collapse, after many plea’s to higher authorities by locals to shift the school, the higher authorities finally shifted the schools and attached to GPS Herpora three room building. Said locals to Kashmir Age.
We are facing accommodation crunch and can’t give proper accommodation facilities to the students enrolled here,” said a teacher posted in the school. The school have only three rooms – one is used for office purposes while the rest two accommodate around 60 students of 8 classes, including the KG section.
He further said that a teacher is sitting on a chair. He is teaching students who are huddled around him. These students are not from one class only but from three classes, resulting in chaos, confusion, and noise. The other teacher has to wait for her turn to teach the rest of the classes. “Then people accuse government teachers of not teaching their students,” said a teacher in the primary school. “You say, how can we teach 3 classes in just one class and that too at one time?” The teacher says despite repeated attempts to contact the higher authorities, no action has been taken. “The higher authorities tell us that they will arrange a spacious place for the school but nothing happens,” the teacher said.
In this school the teachers conduct the classes of one group under open sky while the students of another class are kept inside the building. “On one day we take classes of students from 1st primary to third primary under open sky while as the students of 4th and 5th class are adjusted in one room,” said a teacher, adding that the routine changes the other day and the 4th ad 5th class students are made to sit in a classroom under open sky. “But during rains or inclement weather conditions, the rooms remain congested and students are forced to take classes in a random manner,” teachers said.
Interestingly, the authorities, instead of upgrading the infrastructure, had last year merged a two middle schools having an enrollment of 62 students with the schools, adding to the accommodation crunch of the school. The school has six teachers,
However talking to Kashmir Age Shazia Jan a class 8th student said that government only claims that we provide best quality education to students you can see here what quality education government provide us. Government is only playing with our future, We have nothing here. Our school lack basic facilities like proper staff, safe school building, classrooms, bathrooms and Playground. That is why the official apathy has resulted in decrease in the roll of students in these government run middle Schools, She added. Besides proper accommodation, the schools lacks kitchen shed as well.
Meanwhile when contacted to the chief education officer Anantnag he said that the school was round down building which was on the verge of collapse, that is why we shifted the school to primary school, and we are trying best to reconstruct the old building, however chief education officer refused to said facilities in school and said that there is every facility in school. But when we reached on spot to cover the storey there was no facility in said school.
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