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With the lack of hostel installation for girls astatine the Government Tribal Residential Higher Secondary School successful Bargur posing a hazard of dropouts, the Service Unit for Development Activities successful Rural (SUDAR) has urged the territory medication to found the facility.
In a missive to the Collector connected Friday, its manager S.C. Natraj said the schoolhouse was started arsenic a superior instauration successful 1961 by the Adi Dravidar and Tribal Welfare Department. It was upgraded to a mediate schoolhouse successful 1992, a precocious schoolhouse successful 2008 and a higher secondary schoolhouse successful 2016. At present, 140 boys and 160 girls are studying successful the residential school. However, since its inception, lone a boys’ hostel has been functioning connected the campus.
About 50 boys from villages including Kuttaiyur, Solaganai, Devarmalai, Sundapur, Oosimalai, Thamaraikarai and Thalakarai are staying successful the hostel and pursuing their studies. In the lack of hostel facilities for girls from these villages, and owed to the trouble of commuting regular to the school, galore look the hazard of discontinuing their education.
The organisation pointed retired that a Tribal Welfare Department-run residential mediate schoolhouse is functioning astatine Kuttaiyur, from wherever students completing Class VIII articulation the Bargur schoolhouse located astir 40 km away. While boys are capable to avail themselves of hostel accommodation, girls person nary specified facility. Similarly, respective girls completing Class VIII astatine the residential mediate schoolhouse successful Solaganai person dropped retired owed to deficiency of accommodation.
The NGO noted that capable gathering infrastructure is disposable connected the field to found a girls’ hostel. It appealed to the territory medication to instrumentality contiguous steps to acceptable up the installation to forestall schoolhouse dropouts, curb kid marriages and beforehand girls’ education.
