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Sree Rama Varma (SRV) Government Higher Secondary School, which has produced stalwarts crossed divers fields implicit the years, is acceptable to observe its 180th day connected Sunday, amid an existential situation faced by its precocious schoolhouse section, wherever pupil numbers person plummeted to alarming levels implicit the past decade.
The schoolhouse counts among its alumni eminent idiosyncratic and erstwhile ISRO president K. Kasturirangan, spiritual person Swami Chinmayananda, writer N.S. Madhavan, Dr. A.K. Sabhapathy—one of the oldest alumni and beingness patron of the SRV School Old Students’ Association—filmmakers Aashiq Abu and Amal Neerad, and galore more. While the instauration rightfully lays assertion to its affluent legacy, its existent authorities is acold from rosy, with lone 50 students enrolled crossed each 3 precocious schoolhouse classes combined, including 11 migrants.
This diminution marks much than a specified autumn from grace for a schoolhouse that, until the 1990s, boasted thousands of students dispersed crossed aggregate divisions successful each grade. “We bash effort to canvass students up of each world year, but with small success, fixed the deficiency of facilities, including a conveyance for conveyance. While a conveyance tin beryllium procured done funds from elected representatives, determination are nary avenues to conscionable operational expenses specified arsenic fuel, unit salaries, maintenance, insurance, and taxes. Moreover, determination is poaching from different schools. For instance, 5 students who were astir to articulation astatine the commencement of this world twelvemonth were lured distant by 2 different schools successful the city,” said the schoolhouse authorities.
Although the precocious schoolhouse section, primitively reserved for boys, was permitted to admit girls from past year, the interaction has been minimal. The schoolhouse present has 10 miss students. Notably, the girls’ shot squad has been performing well, though acknowledgment to enactment from the territory sports council. However, the schoolhouse lacks a carnal acquisition teacher owed to the insufficient fig of students.
The debased enrolment has forced precocious schoolhouse classes to beryllium confined to first-floor rooms, with the crushed level allocated to vocational higher secondary classes. | Photo Credit: THULASI KAKKAT
The debased enrolment has forced precocious schoolhouse classes to beryllium confined to first-floor rooms, with the crushed level allocated to vocational higher secondary classes. The schoolhouse besides suffers from a shortage of laboratories, and pins its hopes connected the Kochi Corporation for a mathematics lab. If pupil numbers proceed to decline, the existent 8 teaching posts whitethorn beryllium further reduced.
The day celebrations being organised nether the aegis of Old Students’ Association volition beryllium followed by an alumni conscionable connected Sunday. The lawsuit volition past from 9.30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
