Temple turns makeshift classroom for students of dilapidated school

With the monsoon mounting in, the aboriginal of 68 students of the Komira Primary School successful Ravikamatham mandal of Anakapalli territory hangs precariously by a thread.

On Monday, the quiescent colony of Komira witnessed tense scenes arsenic hopeless parents, accompanied by their children, staged a sit-in protestation extracurricular the section panchayat office, demanding a harmless extortion implicit their children’s heads.

Caught up successful infra crisis

The school, which caters predominantly to children from marginalised SC, ST, and BC communities from Classes 1 to 5, is caught successful a terrible infrastructural crisis.

Out of its 2 existing buildings, 1 has been officially declared a “condemned structure” by authorities engineers owed to terrible structural decay. Massive chunks of the factual slab routinely interruption off, and the walls leak heavy during rains, making it a decease trap.

Left with conscionable a single, damp schoolroom that cannot accommodate 68 students, the schoolhouse medication has been forced to displacement Classes 1 and 2 to a makeshift setup wrong a adjacent temple of Lord Rama. However, adjacent this impermanent statement offers small respite. When the skies unfastened up, moisture seeps done the temple walls, turning the learning situation into an ordeal for the young children.

“Every rainy season, we nonstop our children to schoolhouse with immense fear,” said a protesting parent, B. Satthibabu. “We person fixed aggregate representations to section officials, but they casually archer america that proposals for a imperishable gathering person been sent and funds are yet to beryllium sanctioned. How agelong should our children hold for basal safety?” helium questioned.

‘Administration apathy’

Frustrated by the “administrative apathy”, the protesting parents raised slogans demanding contiguous involution from District Collector Vijaya Krishnan and Education Minister Nara Lokesh.

Local tribal person Polam Raju and CPM territory enforcement subordinate K. Govinda Rao, who joined the stir, urged the medication to instantly pat into Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) funds to conception a impermanent tin-roof structure connected an disposable portion of authorities onshore successful the village.

In a poignant show of desperation, the villagers declared that if the authorities cannot supply the funds, officials should astatine slightest formally allocate the vacant land. “If they springiness america the land, we volition excavation our ain meagre savings and physique a impermanent shed ourselves. But we cannot fto our children’s acquisition and lives beryllium jeopardised,” the parents stated, threatening to intensify their disturbance astatine the Mandal Educational Officer’s (MEO) premises if contiguous enactment is not taken.