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The 40-year-old gathering of Government Polytechnic for Women successful Nellore is successful a dilapidated condition, putting the lives of 180 students astatine risk.
Despite the practice from the main and a parent, the Andhra Pradesh Department of Technical Education has not adjacent sought funds from the State authorities to renovate the gathering owed to fund constraints.
“The walls and ceilings of the assemblage and hostel buildings person developed cracks. The floors are damaged. The doors and windows are broken, and the furnishings is rickety. Toilets are successful an unhygienic condition. The electrical fittings are not moving properly, and the roofs are leaking whenever it rains,” said S. Venkateswarulu, the genitor of a student, portion describing astir the information of the building.
He said determination is nary proviso of harmless drinking h2o connected the campus.
“The atrocious authorities of affairs is raising questions astir the information of the inmates of the women’s hostel. The concern is affecting the world show and intelligence well-being of the students,” helium said, urging the authorities acrophobic to renovate the gathering astatine the earliest.
Mr. Venkateswarulu said helium had apprised the territory and State authorities of the dilapidated gathering done letters, but to nary avail.
“With nary effect from the authorization concerned, I wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi past month. Recently, I received a telephone from the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) inquiring astir the concerns I had raised successful the letter,” helium said.
Speaking to The Hindu, Government Polytechnic for Women Principal Yesu Das said, “After receiving respective complaints from the parents astir the dilapidated information of the building, the District Collector has sent a memo to instrumentality the indispensable action. I person submitted a practice to the Director of Technical Education.”
In the representation, the Principal has requested the authorities to authorisation ₹9.40 crore for the operation of the C- Block gathering arsenic estimated by the Executive Engineer of the Andhra Pradesh Education and Welfare Infrastructure Development Corporation (APEWIDC).
However, the Director of Technical Education couldn’t guardant the aforesaid to the State authorities owed to the fund constraints successful the State plan.
“The fund estimation for 2025-26 nether the State program is ₹15 crore. However, the commitments, arsenic connected April 2025, stood astatine ₹60.79 crore. The Skill Development and Training Department has already submitted a proposal, seeking an further fund of ₹45.79 crore. So, the permissible magnitude for caller sanctions is nil,” said G. Ganesh Kumar, Director of Technical Education.
