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The authorities has pumped successful crores for operation of schoolhouse buildings implicit the past galore years, but determination stay 99 schools successful the State that bash not person their ain buildings.
The bulk of these are authorities schools. District-wise information amusement that these schools are located successful each but 3 districts successful the State. The districts wherever these schools are located are Kollam, Pathanamthitta, Alappuzha, Ernakulam, Thrissur, Palakkad, Malappuram, Kozhikode, Wayanad, Kannur, and Kasaragod.
The highest fig of specified schools is successful Malappuram – 33. The lowest is successful Kollam – 1. Kannur has 21 specified schools.
In a reply successful the Assembly to a question by MLAs N.A. Nellikunnu, P.K. Basheer, KPA Majeed, and M.K. Muneer, Minister for General Education V. Sivankutty said fittingness certificate of schools functioning successful rented buildings was examined astatine the clip of unit fixation each year. “Steps are nether mode for schools functioning successful rented buildings to acquisition their ain property,” the Minister said.
The Minister besides pointed retired that IT instrumentality had been made disposable to specified schools nether the High-tech School and High-tech Lab projects.
According to the Economic Review 2024, determination were 103 authorities schools that were moving successful rented buildings. A twelvemonth before, their fig was 98.
Unfit structures
The State besides has 1,157 schools that person buildings unfit for conducting classes according to the Local Self-government section and request to beryllium torn down. The majority, again, are successful the authorities sector.
Kollam has the astir specified schools – 143, followed by Alappuzha with 134, and Thiruvananthapuram with 120.
Mr. Sivankutty, successful a reply to C.R. Mahesh, MLA, successful the Assembly said that the authorities viewed the substance with utmost seriousness. Construction of caller buildings for the schools was being carried retired utilizing Plan funds and done Kerala Infrastructure Investment Fund Board (KIIFB) projects and attraction done different funds.
Schools request to get fittingness certificate for their structures from the section assemblage acrophobic earlier they reopen each twelvemonth successful June for a caller world session.
According to guidelines, schools should not unfastened connected immoderate relationship without obtaining fittingness certificate.
The Director of General Education had issued a circular to schools connected fittingness of schoolhouse buildings connected May 13 arsenic portion of schoolhouse reopening preparations to guarantee pupil safety.
Fitness certificates are mandatory adjacent if classes are held successful rented structures wherever schools gathering operation is nether way. Instructions were besides fixed to securely barricade operation zones wrong schoolhouse premises.
A gathering attended by Mr. Sivankutty and Minister for Local Self-government M.B. Rajesh had decided that each portions of structures connected schoolhouse campuses that posed a hazard to lives should beryllium dismantled earlier schoolhouse reopening.
As per catastrophe absorption laws, District Collectors would contented orders successful this respect and section self-government institutions would dismantle the structures.
