Parents protest as newly renovated school building leaks within 10 days

Parents, erstwhile students and residents of Vadakku­panaiyur adjacent Kilvelur staged a abrupt protestation connected Tuesday aft rainwater seeped done the extortion of a authorities mediate schoolhouse gathering that had been renovated astatine a outgo of ₹19 lakh conscionable 10 days ago.

The school, which has 120 students, had been functioning with damaged classrooms and toilets for respective years. Following repeated pleas from villagers, ₹19 lakh was sanctioned nether the 2025–26 SIUS wide money of the Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Department, and renovation enactment was carried retired implicit the past fewer months.

Residents said they had earlier flagged the mediocre prime of work, but the contractor allegedly completed the task successful haste with small oversight. After the gathering was handed implicit for use, the caller dense rains triggered by the cyclone exposed terrible leakage from the recently repaired roof, shocking teachers and parents.

Though section officials inspected the operation and assured contiguous rectification, nary enactment has been taken truthful far, the protesters said. They demanded a thorough enquiry by the territory medication into suspected irregularities and called for enactment against officials and the contractor responsible.

The abrupt protestation successful beforehand of the schoolhouse concisely triggered hostility successful the area, arsenic villagers insisted the gathering beryllium repaired decently and made harmless for students.