Warangal: The Chennaram government school complex with a primary and a high school in Wardhannapet mandal of Warangal Rural district reflects the negligence of the officials towards the development of government schools, making the state’s promise of quality education null and void.
The school, with a strength of 150 students, lacks security, sanitation and basic amenities. The compound wall is damaged in several places and the absence of a gate is allowing miscreants to carry out antisocial activities in the premises at night.
Construction of new rooms and a kitchen shed was stopped midway, and has been untouched for the last three years. At present, a single room serves as the classroom, staff room, store room, head master’s room and so forth.
Earlier, the teachers were forced to conduct classes in the old building but due to monsoon season, the teachers and the students are afraid that some part of the building could collapse any time a heavy downpour. And hence the whole school is being run in a single room.
Shankar Singh, headmaster of the primary school said their appeals to the sarpanch and MEO to complete the works of the new building have gone unheard. “We have sent an application regarding the situation to the MEO and the sarpanch along with photos but we are yet to receive any kind of response,” he said.
The non-maintenance of toilets is also troubling the students of both the schools. While the girls have no other option but to use the unhygienic toilets, the boys have to go across the main road to urinate. The students and the teachers have appealed to the officials to solve the issues immediately.
