The government middle school Mangnipora Payeen, here lacks basic facilities and an approach road.
Seerat Mansoor, a class 8th student, says she walks overhalf a kilometer distance through muddy fields every day to reach the school.”It is not less than a nightmare to walk through muddy fields and reach schoolevery day,” she exclaims.
“Most of the time the students here don’t even wear uniformbecause it gets muddied while walking through the mud-splattered pathways. Whenit rains we prefer to stay at home as the narrow passage which reaches to ourschool gets filled with mud and rainwater,” she says, while other studentssecond her.
The school is located along the banks of Wular Lake. Withmore than 60 students on rolls, the school does not have the basic facilitieslike drinking water, electricity, infrastructure, and fencing.
“The school has only four classrooms. The teachers take twoclasses simultaneously in one room due to lack of space,” the students said.
Among the four classrooms one serves askitchen-cum-classroom. “On one side of the classroom teacher imparts lessons tous and on the other side, school maid prepares the mid-day meals in the sameroom,” says Tamana, a class 7 student.
She said that even though three additional classrooms havebeen constructed in the school three years ago, “they are yet to be madefunctional.”
A teacher posted at the school said that an additional blockwith three classroom and separate office room was constructed three years agobut the building has not been handed over to the school as yet.
Chief Education Officer Bandipora, Javid Iqbal Wani said hehas recently joined as CEO and he was not aware of all the issues being facedby the students of middle school Mangnipora. “I will collect all theinformation and try to address those issues immediately,” he said.